It's insane how VR has succeeded beyond most people's wildest dreams on the hardware front (all that hardware that goes into a VR headset either sounded like science fiction or seemed like would be exotic stuff costing tens of thousands of dollars), and the software also had standout successes, but it kinda just petered out both in the entertainment and professional realms.

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markus_zhang 6 days ago | parent [-]

Is it really that successful? I think the wildest dream is that everyone is using it but I don’t really see it happening anytime soon in the future.

	▲	torginus 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I meant success in the technical sense - they managed to get the tech as good as it could realistically get - and cheap too. But it turned out nobody cared. People who envisioned doctors using VR glasses to look at MR images in 3D, architects, modelers, mechanical engineers, who people thought would use 3D to do work turned out to not want it. Immersive games were created, that looked and ran amazing, and afforded a never-before-seen level of interactivity, but after a few standout successes, people just moved on. It's like Apple got to about the iPhone 4 level (where most people would agree the experience was decent), then everybody decided to go back to their old Nokias.