Thoughts on the State of VR 2026 Edition

quick note: I wrote this blog post before Meta’s Connect 2026 event. I’ll most likely make a short followup regarding that soon! Man, oh man. Sigh. Well, I’ve done two previous versions of this post, talking in 2024 and 2025 about the state of VR as a gamer. So I figured I would continue the now annual tradition. Will this be the last one? Only time will tell! TMNT: Empire City So I went back and read my 2025 post to see how I was feeling about things back then. I used the word stagnant to describe things, and I think that was pretty accurate. It hasn’t been all doom and gloom since the previous year though. I broke down and bought a Quest 3, as they had a crazy good deal on refurbished systems. The Quest 3 is a super nice improvement over the 2, and I’ve really enjoyed using it. That meant that I WAS able to get some of the newer games that were getting developed on it, like Deadpool and TMNT: Empire City. I still haven’t gotten the Batman game yet, but Deadpool was a lot of fun,…