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by jroes 3489 days ago
I have tried it. I owned a PSVR for a month and tried everything available. It was a pretty incredible experience, more immersive than I expected for sure. Most of my family and friends had a great time with it as well.

Ultimately, however, I resold it after a month. There are too few interesting full games available. Nearly every game is mostly a short trial, and most of the games are also very experimental and uninteresting to me in general. As an example, a full 1/3 of games available were musical demos that seemed to be geared toward folks having fun experiences while presumably smoking weed or otherwise in an altered state.

There was never a reason for me to come back to the system, but I would like to see if there are very imaginative useful practical applications that eventually see light. After surveying the other VR options I'm not convinced anything exists yet.

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I sold my SNES a couple of months after it launched, because there weren't enough games. Obviously I had to buy it back later.
>There are too few interesting full games available.

That's never stopped consoles from selling. Eventually, those games come out.

> Ultimately, however, I resold it after a month. There are too few interesting full games available.

That seems like a clear example of a problem that will correct itself with time.

What about nature based apps, for coming after work, and just relaxing a bit in nature ? do they give a similar feeling of going into a beach, etc ?
I love that idea but I think we should be more social in person than electronically. I would better go out with someone on a run or a walk than this but again I would love that for sometime
I think almost everyone would prefer to walk with someone in person in nature. However sometimes the more realistic (or perhaps perceived) alternatives might be stay in, or go on a virtual tour with someone online. This makes it relatively attractive.