Investment in VR has never been higher and continues to increase. Just because the Vive and Rift haven't sold multiple millions yet doesn't mean it's dying.
The Vive had sold around 80,000 headsets as of July 2016, so it's probably over 100k by now. Pretty impressive for an extremely expensive piece of hardware requiring a high end PC.
Although I have a feeling he'll be heading back to Tested permanently soon, due to VR being on life support.
VR isn't on life support. A third of Valve are working on VR now and Facebook upped the ante with Oculus even more last week.
I wonder if there are any concrete sales numbers for VR hardware yet. Last I heard all the non Sony VR headsets had sold like 350,000 units or something abysmal but I think that was just hearsay.
I doubt the sales are that good but there is too much money in VR to imagine it going away anytime soon.
Sony though... I don't trust Sony to support anything for long, they have the attention span of a third grader.
The issue is people telling others how to feel, that they're being unreasonable for taking issue with something, and assuming that they're doing it on behalf of the LGBT community as opposed to, you know, just not liking homophobia?
Well since other people are saying stuff is "not okay" I think I am allowed to say that calling people homophobic willy nilly is also "not okay".
@jasoncooke: Okay, so straight people can't take issue with homophobia, queer people can't take issue with homophobia, no one can take issue with anything. Let's all be emotionally dead robots. Got it.
The idea that this Handibot character (or whoever) is homophobic based on a stupid line like that is to me, an overreaction. Sometimes people say stuff that isn't politically correct, it doesn't make them bigots or monsters.
I dont get the love for handybot, for a bot he is very mouthy. But I love the guy that "Fell" when Jeff shot him and the witnesses, they made a great vr moment.
Completely agree with everything here.
Handibot was super annoying from the get-go. Add some homophobic nonsense to it, and it only got worse.
But yeah, the dude at the end who sold being shot and the "witness" were both awesome.
No fun allowed!
I mean, I've heard the whole clip and dude has made comments that are not okay. I don't know why you seem to think I'm against fun or whatever. Hell, I even mentioned parts that I really enjoyed.
Not everything has to be "okay", you are being offended on the behalf of homosexual people when there's not really any need to (though I am assuming you are not homosexual).
On top of that... Jeff's character wasn't in male clothing, femininity/flamboyance/campy is associated with homosexuality and has been for decades (something a lot of homosexuals actually embrace), it isn't homophobic to say "look less gay" in such context.
I dont get the love for handybot, for a bot he is very mouthy. But I love the guy that "Fell" when Jeff shot him and the witnesses, they made a great vr moment.
Completely agree with everything here.
Handibot was super annoying from the get-go. Add some homophobic nonsense to it, and it only got worse.
But yeah, the dude at the end who sold being shot and the "witness" were both awesome.
Not worth reposting all of what I said so I will just say I am very disappointed at how similar this is to Gears of Wars of last generation. Passing on this one, I want new experiences and it seems only VR is going to give that this generation.
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