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It is inevitable that the technology will mature. It is not inevitable that it will play the role people think it will play.

I think I'd be more enthusiastic if:

  - VR headsets weren't still so bad.  Merely good VR devices is still a long way off.
  - the existing VR experiences weren't still so bad
  - the market wasn't completely fragmented and any purchase you make now is very short term
  - any meaningful degree interoperability is still way off in the future
  - the dominant player wants a walled garden where you are a powerless guest - at best

Headsets will get better, but it'll be a slow, expensive and frustrating journey I'd be happy to let someone else get frustrated with. I've followed VR for about 30 years and if you look at it in that perspective, astonishingly little has been accomplished in terms of building something that even rises to where it isn't a frustrating, nauseating, sad experience.

And if Zuck's walled garden is where the action is going to be at, I might sit it out entirely. Why would I invest my time being part of a community where I have absolutely no rights? That would be a really poor choice.

There are legitimate reasons why people aren't as enthusiastic as you. And it doesn't make them naysayers.