Excellent point. I can’t believe people think a whole new medium will flop because in a couple of months it may become available at a 300-500 price-range. When HD came, I spent $4500 on a top of the line 58” HDTV. It had great picture, but was rear projection and big as a house. Now you can get better, bigger picture…

People have already been interested in VR. It’s one of the promises of the future — it’s like flying cars or humanoid robots. As soon as someone can produce a reliable model at a price I can afford - not a price I like, just one I can actually pay - they will be successful and a cultural phenomenon.

I paid something equal to $300 for my racing wheel setup, and that’s still only a fraction of what real racing enthusiasts tend to pay for whole rigs with racing chairs. That too requires a console or a computer to actually run the software, but it doesn’t add nearly as much to the experience as a rift does.

Your analogy would make sense if VR was anything like watching a 3D movie. Most people thought buying glasses and then buying 3D blurays was too much money and hassle for the experience provided (a lot of people don’t even like 3D movies!)

This must be what it was like at the dawn of cinema. “Why would people pay to see moving pictures of a train? I can see a real train for free!”

No one need two or three monitors to play a game but they do anyway, because they want & they can.