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Bodes very well for the future of Stadia, huh. That thing better be a success day 1 if people want it to last more than 2 years.
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Google discontinuing Daydream (Platform & VR headsets), Pixel 4 won't support it at all.
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Bodes very well for the future of Stadia, huh. That thing better be a success day 1 if people want it to last more than 2 years.
Killing a platform, no matter how dead it was, right before launching another kinda-related platform, is a hilariously bad move
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Stadia would been a PERFECT MATCH for Stadia. Imagine full blown VR games streaming to your phone. No wires, no PC.
Unless they're planning to revamp Daydream entirely, this was a bad move.
Unless they're planning to revamp Daydream entirely, this was a bad move.
Imagine investing your money in Stadia and thinking it has legs.Killed by Google
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To their credit they did revise the headset after it got some criticism and quite a few solid apps were released, but it wasn't anything you couldn't get on better platforms on PC, console, or a standalone headset.
Hulu even killed their daydream app and no new phones have supported it, so I can't really blame Google for killing it, but I'm gonna miss it a lot.
The phone headset had no external tracking aside from a Bluetooth remote and rotation on the headset (though I found it worked well for what it was). Not really well suited to something like Beat Saber.
That's a shame but the writing was on the wall when the much more popular Gear VR stopped getting support earlier. Kind of amazing how little of a dent Daydream could muster. I know quite some companies who had high hopes going in. On the other hand Google also made no effort making their headset available outside of the US, so it was in this weird place for most of its life.
Got a little pissed off at reading the obituary for Inbox and Hangouts.Killed by Google
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I had a Daydream. It was a step above Cardboard and a massive step down from even the most basic of high-end VR headsets (like the PSVR).
theyre killing google play music too right?Killed by Google
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This is also a bit depressing as John Carmack praised it not too long ago as being better than Gear VR. Guess better wasn't good enough.
It's being replaced slowly by YouTube music
It's being replaced slowly by YouTube music
I think the point people are getting at is regardless of how sound the idea is, if the company that put it out doesn't keep supporting it, it doesn't bode much confidence in their other projects/products.
it's actually confirmed, they're folding it into youtube music... eventually.
Conflating this with the time and treasure Google have invested in Stadia is completely idiotic.
I mean Stadia is cloud related so it's in-grained in tech Google is in on for the long haul not to mention Stadia is getting 20x the marketing Day dream ever did.
All that said, you can pretty much guarantee half the services (maybe more?) Google ever introduces will either be canned, re-named, or replaced by another incredibly similar service.
All that said, you can pretty much guarantee half the services (maybe more?) Google ever introduces will either be canned, re-named, or replaced by another incredibly similar service.
This stings particularly because the Pixel 4 are the first phones from Google that have a great VR display with that 90Hz refresh rate. VR at 60Hz is just not a good experience. Even if the flicker doesn't bother you, the entire experience has this somewhat "digital" feel to the tracking and motion.
I was hoping they'd use these 90Hz screens to do a relaunch of Daydream and give it another go. With GearVR and Daydream both dead, it looks like the weight of pushing VR is solely on the shoulders of dedicated hardware now.Thats naturally where the best experience is had no question, but it's a shame these absurdly powerful phones with sophisticated displays can't bring the experience downstream anymore.
I was hoping they'd use these 90Hz screens to do a relaunch of Daydream and give it another go. With GearVR and Daydream both dead, it looks like the weight of pushing VR is solely on the shoulders of dedicated hardware now.Thats naturally where the best experience is had no question, but it's a shame these absurdly powerful phones with sophisticated displays can't bring the experience downstream anymore.
Which they will probably fold into something else ....
Google is still trying to figure out messaging for crying out loud...
Google plus would like to have a word with you....if it's still alive.
It's worth noting that the Daydream numbers were BEYOND dreadful. They had an exclusive by Supermassive with less than 500 downloads on the Play Store. Completely untenable numbers for any sort of platform, really. The mobile VR market was already shrinking by the time they got there.
Let me know how many people lost content they paid for on Google+.
PSP, Vita = crappy AAA first party support on PS5 confirmed!
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Is it any good? I really liked my headset, but finding content worth paying for or playing was always a chore.
i couldve not been extremely disappointed with it if they actually figured out student pricing schemes in canada and bothered trying to match spotify and apple musics library. its a rip of a service when spotify exists and does everything infinitely better, between what i mentioned, having a usable UI and having a desktop app as well
im just mad at myself for having been subscribed to it for so long. google has lost my support
I have Cardboard, Gear VR and a Daydream viewer.
This stuff really hurts. But this was abandoned about a year ago. All the low-level VR is dead, right as it was finally accessible.
A lot of it started with the Galaxy S6, but it was pushing the device too hard. You'd get a few minutes in before the device overheated. Now that's powerful enough to be good, it's dead.
This stuff really hurts. But this was abandoned about a year ago. All the low-level VR is dead, right as it was finally accessible.
A lot of it started with the Galaxy S6, but it was pushing the device too hard. You'd get a few minutes in before the device overheated. Now that's powerful enough to be good, it's dead.
I feel like you thought this post was smart.
But surely you see the difference between platforms not having support from third parties and not having support from the creators, right? One is Sony the other is Google.
I actually don't have a Daydream headset, myself, so I couldn't say. ;(