Elite was the "killer app" VR game for me, so there may be a parallel with me growing bored with Elite that has also caused me to grow bored with VR, or perhaps the opposite. I dunno.
I'm sure part of it is that VR for me is a "hassle" compared to just plopping into my recliner with my laptop. I don't have a dedicated gaming room with VR sitting on a pedestal like Professor X's Cerebro. Every time I want to play a VR game, there is some setup involved, and the location is less "comfortable" than my old man recliner.
Nor can I just allot hours of uninterrupted time to lose myself in a virtual reality. My gaming is often interlaced with real life, and just taking that helmet off every few minutes to deal with IRL stuff is a hassle. Someday when VR is a pair of wireless sunglasses that I can easily pop on and off with no fuss, and when affordable VR is not a foggy god ray low contrast "not even close to 4K HDR" experience, I'm sure I'll be as excited about it as I once was.
For me the 'standing the middle of the game' aspect of VR, with motion controllers, is something that elevates it above classic gaming. So I'm still not bored
. (There are plenty of titles like that to play )I've gotta shift a table to the side, now I'm sharing an office living room with my kid
. But it's still not enough of a hurdle to stop me dipping in most nights. (If I was working an active job then I might feel differently about standing up of a night though. And I rarely doubled up a sporty evening with a gaming one in that sense, when sport was still possible. But that's all cool anyway, good to mix it up).Ultimately I'm still super keen to see EDOVR become a thing, even if via a hacky compromise initially for the hardcore vets. It would be a novel way to see ED in a whole new light. (Even if it was just standing up in my living room with an Xbox controller
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