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Unikely.. Kinda why VR also didnt get too popular, most players just prefer "classic" controls and not movement-controls.
But this is huge for VR and other usages of this, probably even useful for production routing, but i dont have any knowledge of that.
Personally I'm surprised that there are so few non-full-body-movement games. It's amazing to sit down and play whatever game in a completely different 3D world. Moss is a great platformer in VR, pinball games are really cool in VR, and driving sims with a wheel and pedals kick absolut ass in VR. I bet games like FIFA, NBA, NHL etc would be amazing, top down car games would be amazing etc etc.
The only real way for vr to explode would be for already established companies to make vr controls for their games, I'm thinking service games specifically. Imagine roaming in ff14 or wow in VR. I would still do hardcore content with standard controllers but I would 100 percent roam around doing stuff in VR.
It really isn't, you're probably just not aware of all the "proper" games that are out there for VR. Browse the Steam store and look at all the VR games sometime.
I have about 40 VR games in my Steam library, for example. I admit I haven't played them all yet but I've played a lot of them and most of them are great. There are tons more that I could buy if I had the time to play all that shit.
Well what I'm saying is there should be more "less full" VR games. VR could be a somewhat simple add-on to many types of games. The difficult thing with VR is the object interaction, the handling of resources etc. if you're in a large 1:1 world, but if you're implement VR as basically just an extra viewport it's not that difficult (for many types of games that are not FPS) and it could still add a lot to the game. Or you can do something like Moss, which is a really cool game.