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I wonder where the high demands of VR are driving the change. If I wanted to do VR I would finally have to upgrade my 5year old PC desktop that had been great. Aftermarket SSD and GPU greatly expand it's life.

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I doubt it. I'm a young guy with lots of gamer friends, and none of us are remotely interested in VR. It's clunky and unintuitive at the moment.

Business orders are likely driving the growth.

I suspect that might have something to do with it coming back to the ‘cool kids’ corner’. I’m a designer, and a) being interested in ML / AI enough to the point that I needed neural nets running, b) and VR kits not struggling so I can keep an eye on that emerging market were the first two things in more than a decade that made my hardware feel just not up to snuff. The last of such ‘I need real hardware’ feeling was the jump to Core 2 Duo that made every developer seemingly assume overnight that they had access to multiple processors.

I haven’t even owned a Windows-based PC in 10 years and I’m on the market for a liquid cooled GTX 1080Ti and AMD Threadripper — guess what is old is new again. Fun times!

I'm less skeptical than the other responders. VRChat in particular has been quite a viral sensation with a few popular memes, and a lot of twitch.tv activity.

VR is what got me to build my own PC after a decade of exclusive mac use.

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