VR still on the rise?

Gamespot has an article that suggests that -despite a number of new VR
titles being released in 2024- it feels like something of a swansong
for the platform, with general excitement over the technology
dwindling amongst users and fans.*

And honestly, I can't say that I disagree, but I also am not sure I'm
in a position to judge. I never really got onto the "new" VR
bandwagon, and have always considered the whole thing a bit of a
gimmick. Nor do I hang out with a lot of VR fans. It's possible I'm
just out of touch.

Still, despite the release of several new games big VR titles ("Metro
Awakening", for example, or "Batman: Arkham Shadow") it doesn't seem
like VR is making much of a splash anymore. It isn't in the news
often, we don't see big new hardware revisions, and Sony even paused
production of their PSVR2 because they had a huge backlog of unsold
devices. Meanwhile, Facebook keeps trying to promote the best use of
MetaVR as its awful metaverse concept, and the Apple Vision Pro was an
overpriced flop.

Is this second age of VR coming to an end? It's not entirely dead yet,
but it does seem like the excitement over the platform has faded and
--except for platform fanatics-- it just isn't drawing in new users
(or, as importantly, users who keep using the device after the initial
novelty wears off) they way it used to. What new stuff we see seems
largely to be titles that have been in production for years and are
only coming out now; meanwhile, hardware companies seem to be
shuttering their VR device plans and VR game development is slowing
down or being quietly ended entirely.

I dunno. It doesn't seem a very positive outlook for the platform, but
--again-- that opinion may just be because I've never had a positive
outlook on it to begin with. What do you think? Do you see VR living
up to its promise and taking over the industry as it was once expected
to? Are you considering getting a new VR device anytime soon? If you
own a VR device, how often do you actually use it?





* read the article here
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/vr-had-a-great-year-but-it-feels-like-a-swansong/1100-6528477/