VR won't be a mass market product until the brick becomes less brick-like.
The VR market is likely to be limited to gamers and a few devs for at least the next few years. That's not a tiny market, but it's much smaller than the market for phones and tablets.
It's also unlikely to take off until VR becomes social, with couples and families all playing in the same virtual space on the same hardware.
Costs and hardware requirements make that impossibly expensive for now.
Not impossibly expensive, I've already been talking to my wife about this. Building two machines so we can each have our own Vive headset. But in regards to 'impossibly expensive', I'd also consider buying two PS4s with PSVR headsets for the same purpose. We're talking $1,600 total for the next best thing to a holodeck.
If someone delivers the software and it gets rave reviews as a cooperative experience, I will buy those PS4s or build new computers for it. That's how trends start, but the PS4 option for VR brings the cost and complication down considerably for everyone on day one.
The VR market is likely to be limited to gamers and a few devs for at least the next few years. That's not a tiny market, but it's much smaller than the market for phones and tablets.
It's also unlikely to take off until VR becomes social, with couples and families all playing in the same virtual space on the same hardware.
Costs and hardware requirements make that impossibly expensive for now.