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VR - great or gimmick?

I was recently involved in a project that involved a little bit of VR. Mainly looking at a few headsets to see which might be suitable for another company to build some VR stuff for us. Last week I got to have a quick go of Half Life Alyx on a Valve Index. It was very impressive! Considering I'm not really a gamer, it really grabbed my attention. Now I find myself sort of tempted to get one. If I do then it'll definitely be a Vale Index despite the lead time. It was better than the really high end Varjo one that cost 10x the price.

 

Unfortunately, I'll be leaving the company soon so won't be able to try it out any further for myself. A question for those of you who might have bought a VR headset. Do you still find it useful / interesting or is it the sort of thing where the gimmick soon wears off?

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  • Whilst getting to grips with Unity and VR, it seems that I managed to create some strange dystopian world inhabited by 15ft Lego mini figures. image

     

     

    I, for one, welcome our giant plastic overlords.

  • in reply to Fred27

    How're you finding Valve's index offering?

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  • in reply to cstanton

    I've not got much to compare it to, but it seems pretty good. The only other headset I tried was a demo of a stupidly expensive Varjo one at work. It was no better than the Valve and it was 10x the price.

     

    The SteamVR components you can add to Unity or Unreal work well to get VR up and running. It can be a little confusing deciding exactly how you're going to tackle a VR project - Unity or Unreal? OpenXR or SteamVR? I'm just getting my head round the possibilities so it doesn't really matter. I won't be trying to sell a game or anything.

     

    The video above was the result of just adding a few SteamVR components to the Unity Lego microgame in place of the existing 3rd person camera.