Put the headset on my drunk ass and I'm instantly transported to gorilla tag. Never tried VR before so thought okay why not, might be fun. Honestly my first experience in VR still sits with me to this day, it still fills me with enjoyment 3 years on, just upgraded from quest 2 -> 3ĭrinking at my mates house and he asked me if I wanted to become a gorilla in this new game/headset he got. Not that bullshit video that Quest 3 demo stations at Best Buy had, but actually have them try Beat Saber or First Contact or something. I think it would be easier to sell it if you could put one on a person's head and have them really try it. I don't know about y'all, but we had our hours cut 40%, so we weren't rolling in it in 2020-2021. And money was tight, with layoffs and reduced hours. And while it did sell to people in lockdown fairly well, it was still a gamble, it was the first headset for a lot of folks. It was only with Quest and Rift S that inside-out tracking started to come into mainstream, and you could just play wherever, with no prep and no dedicated demo area with lighthouses and shit.īut then Covid landed, and Quest 2 released in the midst of it. Pre-2019, most headsets still required a fairly extensive setup.
But I think if there was no Covid, and in 2020 at launch Meta could just have demo stations literally on street corners, it would have had even higher adoption rates.