My VR headset has been collecting dust only because every time I think about using it, I remember the intense fatigue and intentional effort that comes along with having to prepare the headset and use it. It gets fogged up if I sweat even lightly, I have to arrange the cord using this ceiling rig I bought and installed to keep it out of my cats reach so they don’t chew through yet another cable and render my headset useless until I order a replacement

I think about how awkward it feels to play some normal pc games in VR which I could save a lot of time and fatigue by just playing on PC normally, and usually within 20-30 min of booting it all up I just realize I don’t enjoy standing to play games or exerting energy to do so either. The game section is so limited and not all that exciting to replay the games I already played in VR (namely HL:A, beat Sabre, and pop1 is too full of sweats and bad matchmaking to enjoy anymore - and that kind of ends my list of interesting games to venture into with my headset anyway).

It’s just a cumbersome and annoying medium to use. Not to mention the constant fogging of the lenses from any physical activity, the heavy equipment on my head and frequent double checking my cat isn’t chewing on the cable again. The constant rearranging so I don’t get tangled up in it, the awkward control schemes setting me back considerably trying to play normal PC games with a VR component - I just find myself shrugging and avoiding pulling out the headset anytime I remotely consider playing something in the VR space. That and the industry is so limited - I haven’t heard of any remarkable VR games since pop1 or HL:A and thus I see no reason to pull it out and plug it in again.

It sucks because the tech is cool as shit but I just can’t bring myself to go through the effort involved to plug into that world