Hi Guys, I recently entered this page and I saw a good opportunity to start developing video games and make myself known little by little since I always wanted to do this.

What happens to me however, is that I'm gambling with how to make my game, my intention is to make a horror experience, at first I thought of making it in first person from the monitor, like the vast majority.

However then I thought about making it in VR, the problem is I don't know how many people on this site have VR or how many people have that as a demand on the site.

I would like to know if there is a way to know statistics or something similar to know how many people on itch usually download VR games or know how many people use virtual reality glasses... maybe with a survey?

I know my project would be much better in VR... but I don't know how much I would be risking, or how many people would be able to play it.

I welcome any comments or suggestions.

If you're new to game development, then I recommend not worrying about VR too much and just focus on getting into the swing of things by getting it running on a single traditional desktop platform. On the other hand, it's good if you can keep in mind future platforms and features while you're developing, and I like to do a bunch of survey and reference reading before I get started on a new project, so I recommend doing as much as you can of that without getting overwhelmed.

Which brings me to plug a book by a friend of mine

https://www.routledge.com/Building-Virtual-Reality-with-Unity-and-SteamVR/Murray...

VR is a dead market even on steam there is less than 1% of Active users who play VR games and less than a 1000 are VR games in steam. Nothing in VR is worth it, too costly to test the game and too expensive for customers.

VR - i dont use VR. It costs a lot. And very big thing for just few games. So, it is ok to make a casual game for a monitor, i guess. I think VR should be a future, but looks like this future dont appear. And VR is still just a feature for some WOW effect. and nothing else.  So in result, for me VR is just WOW effect and some possbile new way for gaming. I think casual games with monitor will be main stream. And VR can be a some aditional only way. Some extra. But never main. VR is interesting if you are cool with tech!