Steam gets it. I don't love them, but they get it.

When did Meta stop making games? Pretty sure they still have many of their studios working on stuff, Asgard’s wrath was the only one they released half a year ago.

I find Apple‘s "general purpose VR" approach interesting, but I don’t think it’s going to fly right now, as you said: gaming is the main use case so far and Apple‘s not playing along. Even if they were, I don’t know if it made a huge difference, it would still have a tiny market size with expensive hardware.

It's not a lack of software that killed it, it's the lack of ability to use any meaningful library of software due to proprietary restraints, as always. I don't know when everyone made the switch from VR as a peripheral to strictly proprietary, "stand-alone" (and die alone) headsets, but it's literally killing VR as a whole.

Don't get me wrong, the current strict PCVR companies aren't any better. They see what's happening and are doubling down on the massive cost hike despite looking shittier and technically having less features than SA headsets. That being said, they work INFINITELY smoother with PC apps and game and movies, in addition to higher quality tracking systems and third-party hardware support. This alone should put them ahead by a long-shot, but being an unaffordable hobby niche doesn't help when large corpos can churn out headsets full of "stand-alone" bloat at a loss just to devour the majority of the VR market and lock people into hopeless, proprietary hellscapes.

Usually, I’d say what Apple does best is make a compelling and polished product. If you simply compare hardware stats, you’re not telling the entire story.

In this case, however, I kind of agree. Visually and with its eye-tracking-based input, it’s a huge step up, but it falls short in many other areas: it’s hilariously expensive, uncomfortable to wear, has a tethered battery, and basically no VR game support due to the lacking controller input.

There isn’t a good enough reason to actually put on the headset. Most, if not all, of the things it does are easier done on a screen – only the VP has a lot more friction and is uncomfortable. From the unique things it does – 3D videos and VR games – there isn’t a lot of content.

This is triple-priced in even the most generous case, and 7x higher than the Quest 3.

You can file patents for things without producing them. Apple does it all the time.

Apple isn't really a military contract/industrial complex type, they're more the retarded, pretentious rich people and retarded poor-ish people who think they're rich because they saved 15% or more on Geico type.