Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks Everywhere, No VR, and Impressive Indie Games

Re:Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks Everywhere, No VR, and Impres... by spywaregorilla on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:00AM (#36863292)

A screen strapped to your face in a clumsy world is less immersive than even a third person television game with tight controls.

Consider RED STEEL 2 for the Wii. Motion control gun and sword play. FPS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO91n5phQQY

To me this looks way more immersive than any VR shooter game. You can really move around and do things that you can't do irl. Even if your controls allow that in VR, it's going to feel wrong. It's going to make you think about the screen on your face. Yeah yeah you have the cool VR moments where you duck in and out of cover. Those are cool and immersive because you genuinely don't need to do anything you can't do irl. But they get boring eventually.

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Re:Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks Everywhere, No VR, and Impres... by two_handfuls on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:50PM (#36872570)

My experience is the complete opposite. Flight simulators outside of VR feel like just a pale echo of what a VR flight sim can do.

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Re:Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks Everywhere, No VR, and Impres... by spywaregorilla on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:19AM (#36893968)

Sure. Chair simulators. They're genuinely good.

They're not what people really want out of VR though.

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