Polyarc, a studio founded by ex-Bungie developers that's made a name for itself with two stellar VR games in its Moss series, is bringing both games to PC and consoles – no VR headset needed – in the form of Moss: The Forgotten Relic. The puzzle-platformer/action-adventure is due out this summer.
The Steam Frame has a good chance of changing that like the Steam Deck did for handheld computer gaming. Partly because it bridges the gap between PC gaming and handheld gaming because the early Rift and Vive were strictly PC based which excluded people who didn’t have the best gaming rigs and these headsets weren’t cheap either. And then Meta comes along as does Pico but they focus on handheld gaming which is cheaper but doesn’t allow the best graphics or long term games, more mobile style games than anything else.
But the Steam Frame has a chance to make a better bridge between the two since it is a PC at its core and runs Linux and doesn’t need a dedicated PC to play games.
I’m optimistic, anyway.
I’m still a bit skeptical, if only because the Steam Frame still won’t solve the issues a lot of people have about limited space to use VR, the associated cost, and just VR’s overall utility.
The current economy sucks, a lot of folks can’t afford more than one or two dedicated gaming devices, and VR is a hard sell when PC and handheld gaming will always get preference. It’s not dead and it won’t be going anywhere, but I don’t see it evolving out of “niche” status anytime soon.