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Re:Half-Life: Alyx by shadowgovt on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:20PM (#21599073)
> expensive AF

Google Daydream headset and controller are $60, and operate with the smartphone people already own (assuming you've got a decently-beefy smartphone). Price is hitting record lows on this hardware.

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Re:Half-Life: Alyx by s9w on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:24PM (#21599141)
60$ of hardware is not the same experience as a $1000 Valve index
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Re:Half-Life: Alyx by shadowgovt on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:25PM (#21599160)
It definitely isn't, but you wrote off all of VR as a gimmick, then you gave reasons for your assertion. One of those reasons doesn't apply to all of VR.
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Re:Half-Life: Alyx by s9w on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:27PM (#21599185)
That is technically correct.
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