I'm afraid this is going to be our future. There's web standards and VR browsers that allows us to enter any VR experience using your preferred device, but like Podcasts, there's a lot of effort to create silos that companies can act as a monopolist in.
I won't give up the fight against exclusivity because my side isn't the uphill fight.
I'm not sure if even Google Cardboard qualifies since I'm not sure if you could distribute those through alternative app "stores" like F-Droid.
VR's widespread adoption has been "right around the corner" for at least a decade now, but it keeps failing to actually materialize. These things are niche gaming peripherals still, and proponents can ill afford to ignore potential users if they really want to reach ubiquity.
There is a large group of Apple apologists right here on this very site!
Maybe the people who aren't diving in to VR are "having trouble understanding why" they should?
(Full disclosure: I honestly can't think of many things worse than strapping a box of electronics onto my head!)
That doesn’t make any sense. Users want a good out of the box experience, which is what they’re getting. Without the Quest there would be no realistic consumer VR development out there. Most people writing these types of comments have never owned or used a Quest.
The markets still relatively small and the cost of entry high, so giving potential customers any reason to buy a console instead is a mistake in the longer term in my opinion (better to have a smaller slice of a much bigger pie), and might make studios less likely to invest their time in making VR games
-- Stewart Brand