James Kelley

Lover of creative tools 🧠🥽🎥🥁🎨🎸🎤🎹

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

Check out that Horizon 👀 🤭

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

Given how generous the internet is being lately, tonight I'm plunging my face into my kitchen sink and calling it scuba diving.

[lufz @djlufz]

@Rowdy_GT it is really VR, and by tonight my head will move when I turn to look around

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

Please

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

Just gonna start logging these to track how many times I see it. Phone lives on charger with wifi every night.

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

Just in case I needed another reminder half an hour later

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

I just burned through my Quest 3 battery wearing it as literally just a passthrough device. Just rawdogging it as bulky prescription glasses. 🤪

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

@Lunayian Plus the boundary setup hum

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

It appears/disappears on Public too, and also the Quit button for the currently open game.

Also videos recordings will fail to process after stopping, for several minutes, after which I'll get a batch of rapid fire notifications of them being saved.

The other consistent annoyance is on wake, I can always expect to have to turn 180 to see the open panel, and it's huge, 15 feet away, and rotated backwards. 🫩

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

@Rengle820 My following feed is 90% AI vibecoding, gaussian splats, mixed reality tech demos

And I follow almost exclusively VR gaming influencers lol

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

@zig131 @xuwu Bigscreen Beyond, or are you gonna move the goalposts even more?

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

There's risk and reward when shooting guns in VR, but putting on a VR headset to exclusively point guns, when thumbsticks and mice already do this adequately for 95% of the gaming population, is naive.

There need to be more compelling interactive benefits to playing a VR game, than just wrist-based alternative to thumbstick aiming. Seriously.

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

Alyx only turned VR into a place people demand $100M games

[Jourden Reid 🇺🇸 @JourdenReid]

@thecathguy What are you talking about? Even for people who couldn’t afford it, Alyx turned VR from a gimmick into a serious medium for entertainment. It rose the tide for all ships.

The problem is no one followed Valve’s quality, and Meta spent billions turning VR back into a gimmick.

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

@gamingbuddy32 Picking up an object may not be inherently more fun, but the thing that made Superhot fun was the risk/reward aspect of doing such interactions.

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

It's hard to justify playing a flat game in VR when the game was never designed for spatial inputs. They require all this extra physical effort just to limit you to the same interactions.

Superhot VR did it right, taking a gameplay concept and creating something bespoke for head and hands.

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

@cybereality The movement has to start young the same way traditional videogames did. Adults just don't have the time, stamina, etc to replace their lazy thumbstick hobby with a much more active form of interactive entertainment.

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

The number of headsets ending up in a drawer of a gen alpha vs an adult is unknown. All I know is that after the dust settles (pun intended I guess), the success of the vast majority of popular and topselling VR games the past several years is thanks to kids, and if adults want "their" games to succeed, they need to blame people their own age, not kids.

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

Half of all teens in the US own VR. Adults only think VR expensive because $300 is a lot to pay for something that they only know of as a cockpit sim enhancer.

[Wendren @wendren96759]

@thecathguy The core problem with the VR in the first place is that it's just far too expensive for the average person.
VR games will never truly be successful unless full-feature, high-quality VR setups become cheap enough that the average person can purchase them without hesitation.

[James Kelley @MuchRockness]

@QuestWithMatt Correction: 1/3 of US teens, or 14M.

Half of those (6-7 million) play VR several times a month.