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adjl posted...

Indeed. It's a pretty stable niche, in that people who like it are continuing to buy new hardware as new developments come out and there's enough of a market to sustain software development, but it hasn't really taken off in the sense of seeing large-scale success and I don't expect that it ever will.

I still remember back in the 80s when everyone was convinced that VR was going to be the future. And then in the 90s people were still saying that. And then in the 2000s. And the 2010s.

Like 3D, it's one of those technologies that everyone always seems to think is going to become ubiquitous right around the corner, but it never really seems to take off in any meaningful way. You get little bursts where it becomes slightly more popular and everyone goes "This is it! It's finally taking off!", and then the fad ends and it just sort of fades back into the shadows until the next time the tech slightly improves and the cycle repeats again.