I love VR, but the industry has some serious hurdles to overcome. Let's talk about the key changes VR needs to go mainstream and reach its full potential. I now have a tip jar, feel free to not donate. streamelements.com/coffeeover...
I doubt making parallel, crossplay games would entice a new audience to try vr, as it demands more money and physical exertion. And even those who would try it would probably get turned away because of their low tolerance to motion sickness. What we need is more games that take maximum advantage of the medium of vr, beat saber as the stereotypical example, with maximum appeal. Gamers will happily stay sitting in front of a ultra wide, curved monitor that alone costs as much as a quest 3, content to call it “immersive” if you don’t give them a reason to do otherwise.
The main issue is a bit of a catch 22, major studios dont want to invest a lot into developing something that has a tiny demographic, name of the game is to target the largest possible audience to get the most returns on the investment. At the same time majority of consumers don't want to invest into VR hardware because there isn't a lot of major titles for it. The main reason you see a decent number of indie games with VR support is mostly because Unity has built in support for it (the VRchat guys pumped out a ton of plugins over the years). Though flat2VR / UEVR has helped open things up a bit more with their mods and injection tools.
Its maybe such a small demographic becasue the games people like arent in VR though , like you say catch 22. But VR is going to get better and better for sure so they are being short sighted and hindering he advances in the technology at the same time. If you see what I mean. But yeah like you say itss Catch 22 at the minute.
I don't think making dual vr and non-vr games will work since VR and flatscreen games have to be designed differently. Since in VR a player might be hyperfocused on the near environment making the need for a more interactive world, different scene composition since the player might be distracted, different movement systems for players sitting down or standing up. So only a few games would be fit for a good vr conversion Unless it's just a simple port like in the days of oculus DK1 and DK2, this will not be an easy feat to design a game that would translate so perfectly into two different mediums. I think VR arcades are a better option to try vr overall and see if you like it at all, and then if you DO happen to like it, there needs to be more marketing right now for vr games, since you have to ACTIVELY SEARCH FOR THEM right now and they're not advertised, with exception of a few hits like half-life alyx or asgard's wrath. the vr market is so dry at the moment that any decently made game for this medium would sell well if marketed properly, to the right people.
that's cool and all but have you played Asgard's Wrath 2 or Assassin's Creed Nexus? VR devs are doing their best imo. especially if you watched the dev log of two of these games.
Even though its not optimal for VR just add the other caera and tracking ability so I dont have to use a wrok around this is so easy to do for a games company. Just say its beta or experimental or some shit. 3rd parties haveing to do this is ridiculous but tis all we have in most cases.
I wanted to play horizon call of the mountain vr but I dont own a playstation and i dont own a playstation vr headset. I would definitely buy it if it went on steam, but they just refuse. Playstation adds exclusives on steam too, why not this VR game as well.
