It’s time to say goodbye.
  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    Sometimes I feel like Microsoft is just a little too early to the party. Apple is about to release their VR/AR product and even they do it’s probably going to be crazy and become popular. Then Microsoft will have missed the wave.

    The same can be applied to their Windows phones. Had they suck around a bit they would have had a better market share I think.

    • BudgieMania@kbin.social
      9·
      10 months ago

      To further your point, I would add Mixer. Msoft gave up on it just months before Twitch made a series of controversial moves that would have been the perfect moment to strike with an alternative.

      I think that part of the difference there is also that Apple is really good at marketing their products into “the cool thing to have” and a status symbol, a lot of their products don’t necessarily gain steam based purely on their functionality but more based on their ability to make it the hottest latest thing to have.

      • verysoft@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        Dude the Mixer situation was so weird to me, they were clearly serious about it, bought out a bunch of big streamers for ridiculous amounts of money and then just… gave up. They needed more ways to engage the community of streamers, like Twitch Rivals does, because people are not going to use your platform if they have no-one they want to watch, but Mixer never attempted to try and get people to watch new streamers.

        I did try Mixer when I still watched livestreams often, the video quality was so much better, the player was snappy and was such a breath of fresh air from Twitch. But my god did they butcher the chat/viewer experience. I don’t want visual clutter and fireworks flying over my screen all the time, it was the most dogshit thing ever, so back to Twitch I went. I mean Twitch without FFZ is also disgusting now, give me that simple IRC chat back!

  • BudgieMania@kbin.social
    7·
    10 months ago

    Oooof that’s unfortunate, it was the platform for reasonably priced VR systems that weren’t made by Facebook (I refuse to acknowledge their rebrand), even if it wasn’t the best software…

    This is basically another step towards a situation in which your only VR options are either high end Valve offerings or buying into the Facebook ecosystem.

    • AlexisFR@jlai.luEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Where’s Oculus Rift when you need them? I’m still waiting for the 3 to release…

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      Don’t discount psvr. It’s pricey if you don’t have a ps5 and start from scratch, but many do so it comes into a more affordable bracket then, but still pricey.

      • BudgieMania@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        oh yeah, psvr1 was my entry headset and it was decent, but I don’t know, that’s another very closed environment. It’s also really unclear how truly on board Sony is with VR at the moment…

    • Berttheduck@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’m pretty sure you can make the g2 boot straight to steam vr at the moment so hopefully that will just become the default. Otherwise I’ll just have to stop updating my computer which is less ideal.

  • Fredy1422@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Will Microsoft force uninstall the windows mixed reality portal app needed to even start steam vr? If so how to fully prevent it from doing so without making it a fully offline device. I play sooo much hotdogs horseshoes and hand grenades (h3vr) with a boat load of mods, and not being able to run it because windows mixed reality portal is removed from the system, will make me sad.

  • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    03·
    10 months ago

    There is something that people tend to forget and very clear on what was learned from VR and mixed reality: if they means wearing a device in your head or eyes, it will fail. Technology needs to advance considerable in order to both VR and mixed be adopted into everyone’s life.