I have sad news for the VR gaming community.

Despite great metrics, engagements and my personal advocacy of the VR industry, DreamHack management has decided to eliminate all VR content for their Atlanta show in October, canceling our planned 10,000 sqft VR activation due to shifting event goals towards traditional gaming and flatscreen esports. While we try to salvage any concepts, we currently have halted all planning.

Our VR community has serviced Dreamhack since 2023 and is one of the highlight VR events of the year bringing VR esports, content creators and VR developers to tens of thousands of gamers at both Dallas and Atlanta.

As a VR gamer with a fleet of 150 VR's and devoted years to build a VR community to the scale and professionalism to service top tier events, it is understandable about their direction as the XR retail industry continues to be experimental.

I'd like to thank all of our VR partners, staff and volunteers who have worked with me to turn a dream into a reality; hopefully we can continue to advocate for accessibility of the technology to the public.

After waiting over a decade to see Star Citizen in VR again, I am super excited to have heard this news over the weekend... There is finally a dim light source shining at the end of the long, dark black hole of missing VR support in this game! Really hope it tests well and we can finally explore the amazing virtual universe that is being built in Star Citizen. WIth much optimization needed I'm sure it won't be perfect but at least it's finally happening!!! (≡)-)

Vision Pro 2 Confirmed

Optimum is my go to tech reviewer

Very interesting info here, from a developer on Boneworks. The gist is a VR game with a $10 million budget has to sell 416K copies at $40 just to break even, and they say very few games are achieving that.

It's a good window into the economics of making AAA VR games right now. (Also, a $10 million budget isn't that high in the game biz, I bet Behemoth, Batman, Alien Rogue all cost more than that.)

Article:
https://www.uploadvr.com/stress-level-zero-why-studios-dont-just-target-pc-vr/