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by bastien2 711 days ago
It's more that VR/AR is a high-cost solution still in search of a problem that makes it profitable.

So far the only market for VR is niche entertainment. VRC is fun, but VR games have been arounds for decades and never gotten past novelty.

AR has value as an accessibility tool because it can get around the high cost of some infrastructure changes. But like all accessibility tools, profit-focused eyeballs see it as a small, low-margin market. Enabling human rights is not considered profit.

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> So far the only market for VR is niche entertainment.

That's not true. VR also thrives in corporate. Niches, yes. But it does do well there. Training and simulation scenarios in particular. There's some tools like uptale and arthur that capitalise on this.

And VR games are really really good and add a lot of immersion. I don't like to game without it anymore.

I don't think VR is for everything and everyone but there certainly are usecases for it.