Three prominent pieces of hardware-the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, and the PSVR- entered the VR arena within a space of roughly six months in 2016. However, the devices and content have been improving to make it start to look slightly interesting to a mass consumer base.” “It was doomed to underperform by a large margin. “The problem with VR was that four years ago it was way overhyped,” says David Cole, founder and CEO of digital entertainment research firm DFC Intelligence. However, the future of VR as a means of mass entertainment remains almost as murky as ever. In the past five years, though, that has changed: The headsets are real and at least somewhat spectacular, if not fully refined. For decades, VR was the stuff of science fiction, and either technologically impractical or effectively unaffordable.

That tangible progress toward a utopian vision of VR makes the present state of the market more perplexing. But the PSVR provided an important proof of concept, delivering quality, living-room VR in an easy-to-set-up accessory for a widely available gaming platform.

That figure fell far short of the most optimistic estimates-one overexuberant analyst forecasted 6 million sales in 2016 alone-and it’s a pittance compared to the total number of PS4 systems sold (approximately 115 million). As of last January, Sony had sold more than 5 million units of its PSVR headset for the PlayStation 4, which launched in October 2016. The last generation was a watershed for widespread access to VR. The latest depiction of a future in which VR entertainment is ubiquitous arrived at the dawn of a new hardware generation that thus far seems like a setback for VR gaming. Cyberpunk 2077 itself shipped with no native VR support, preventing VR-equipped players from pretending they were taking an authentic braindancing trip. Not only do we lack the tech to bring braindancing to the masses, but even the on-screen representation of braindancing in Cyberpunk gave epilectic gamers seizures until the buggy game was patched. In the real world, we’re well behind that timeline. In Cyberpunk lore, the technology behind braindancing was pioneered in the late 2000s and almost immediately adapted for entertainment purposes (not all of which were porn).

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