The Steam Frame is certainly not a budget product.<\/p>\n
But not everyone agrees with the suggestion that VR in general costs too much.<\/p>\n
“The idea that it’s too expensive is one of the biggest misconceptions about VR,” UploadVR website editor David Heaney told me.<\/p>\n
He pointed out while some headsets may be expensive, Meta’s Quest 3S budget model costs \u00a3320 but has been on sale for \u00a3250 several times.<\/p>\n
“In context, a Nintendo Switch 2 is \u00a3420, an Xbox Series S is \u00a3430, and a PS5 is \u00a3470 – Quest 3S, which is primarily used for gaming, is cheaper than other games consoles,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said the big barrier to more people getting into VR was simply that “we’re still in the early days”. <\/p>\n
“You have to see VR in the same timeframe you’d see personal computers in the 1980s,” he said. <\/p>\n
“Even if they had been cheap, which they weren’t, they weren’t yet good enough for mainstream adoption. <\/p>\n
“VR is only just getting started, a tech in its 1980s PC era, not something anywhere near maturity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steam Frame is certainly not a budget product. But not everyone agrees with the suggestion that VR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}