{"id":36710,"date":"2017-01-24T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36710"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:54:59","slug":"new-year-2017-livestream-part-1-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36710","title":{"rendered":"New Year 2017 Livestream Part 1: VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know we&#8217;re nearly done with Until Dawn. But we decided to take a break from that because this week marks the 7th anniversary of Spoiler Warning. We recorded something special to mark the occasion. That will go up this Friday. In the meantime here is the first part of our 2017 new year stream:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3XrvbzcDuzw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3XrvbzcDuzw'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>And once again we run into the drawback of VR, which is that it&#8217;s very hard to <strong>share<\/strong>. For many people this is the only way they&#8217;ll ever get to see these games &#8211; including some great Portal content &#8211; but we had to switch to something else because too many viewers were finding it uncomfortable to watch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hey. VR is AMAZING. You seriously need to check it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>I tried watching someone play a VR game and it&#8217;s awful. It&#8217;s like watching a half hour of shaky cam footage. Actually, I guess it&#8217;s not <strong>like<\/strong> that. It <strong>is<\/strong> that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s hard to watch someone else play. But trust me, it doesn&#8217;t feel like that when you&#8217;re the one playing. When you&#8217;ve got the headset on, it&#8217;s nauseating in a totally different way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Is this a game about playing fetch? Are you kidding me? Like, fetch with a dog? How is that a videogame?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I admit it looks boring when you&#8217;re just watching. And it&#8217;s true that normally first-person fetch wouldn&#8217;t be very interesting. But trust me, VR is incredible. You have to experience it yourself to understand why it feels so amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you say so. I guess I could give it a try and see if&#8230; EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS? A VR headset costs as much as TWO consoles? That&#8217;s madness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it&#8217;s expensive now. But we&#8217;re still in the early adopter phase, so prices are naturally pretty high. Don&#8217;t worry, the prices will probably come down once there&#8217;s a demand for the headsets. We just need to wait for some good games to come out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>A VR headset costs as much as two consoles and yet has less good games than the Wii-U, which was already a failure because of lack of titles?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it&#8217;s overpriced, hard to watch, with very few worthwhile titles, but trust me. As long as you&#8217;re not one of the unlucky majority that gets VR sickness, you&#8217;ll have a mind-blowing experience.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technically our VR apologist is right, but this is still a massive barrier to entry. Having tried VR myself, I really want to see it succeed. But this is a huge hill to climb. 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