Beat Saber is VR’s killer app ATM, especially for non-hardcore gamers and fitness enthusiasts. In fact, I think VR’s main appeal will be to non-gamers, which makes the less powerful GPU on the quest a non issue.

>I think VR’s main appeal will be to non-gamers, which makes the less powerful GPU on the quest a non issue.

Those non-gamers are still want to going to want all sorts of things going on in their VR scenes with framerates high enough that 10% of the population doesn't get motion sick.

Ya, but we are almost already their for rhythm games. The biggest problem with the experience is the latency between action and effect (slicing a block to feeling its impact), which seems to push 100 or 200 ms sometimes, the bottleneck seems to be in general processing ATM.

> VR’s killer app ATM

there is no such thing as a 'killer app' "ATM" - a 'killer app' by definition is one that transforms technology/society and that afterwords, we 'cannot do without' (or at least think so) - eg. personal computers+spreadsheet, smartphones+mobile internet, etc.

If a 'killer app' is 'at the moment', it isn't a killer app because there is a 'next' moment, implying that the previous 'killer app' wasn't 'killer' because we can now do without it

That’s exactly what best saber is. I bought an oculus quest purely due to beat saber. Everything else it can do was/is/will be a bonus!

People bought the Wii because they thought it was transformative. Yet people got sick of standing the whole time to play. Same with VR.

If someone lost 40 pounds playing beat saber everyday, wouldn’t that be transformative to them?