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It's not just too much work to set up. It's too much work to play. Standing up and moving around is never going to be as comfortable as lounging on the couch moving only your thumbs.

I think roomscale VR has a real problem as an entertainment medium. People expect it to slot into the same place in their lives as TV and video games, but it doesn't work like that. It's better to think of it as an indoor sport like table tennis (of course, it can literally be table tennis). It can actually work really well as a form of lightweight exercise. But roomscale VR is not what you want for vegging out at the end of the day like TV, and better hardware won't change that.

What really convinced me of this was playing puzzle games in VR. I wanted VR Myst to be awesome, but it's unfortunately quite uncomfortable to stand in place for ten minutes at a time while you ponder some contraption. Wearing a pound on your head doesn't help, but even if the headset weighed nothing it still wouldn't be comfortable just because of the standing. You can't rest, except by sitting on the floor. You can't lean on anything. You can't even put a hand out to steady yourself. It's exhausting.