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Quest: Pigasus VR— Sometimes Apps are Actually Worth Paying For
Pick an application genre and a platform and you’ll find a war being waged. A battle for monetization. Consumers have been trained not to pay cash for anything. In fact, buyers of applications can become almost hostile when a developer asks for even a pittance purchase of their product — happy to trade features, functionality, their privacy or other commodity for product. But not all the soldiers out there have been conscripted for the “free to use” skirmish — and that is a Good Thing(tm). Updated 2020–12–24.
Hanging Hat Studios, LLC is “an independent app development studio that produces apps for the mobile and mobile VR market”.
Pigasus VR recently deployed to the insanely popular Oculus Quest platform after doing a popular tenure on other Oculus platforms Go and GearVR. Unlike the other 14 video-playback-centric apps on the Oculus Store, Pigasus VR doesn’t have the seductive FREE under it; it reads $5.99.
This juxtaposition is all too familiar in the mobile industry.
Upon release, it was almost instantly panned on popular Oculus sub r/OculusQuest by someone that couldn’t believe someone could CHARGE for this player.
I have always been in favor of paying for quality software — and as a fan of one of the “Free” alternatives (Skybox —…
