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> No one tried it because it's expensive AF.

If you already have a gaming PC, you just need a headset. I got mine for $300 on a Black Friday. Is that 'expensive AF'?

If you are buying a PC for the sole purpose of using it with a VR headset, then fine. But who does that?

> And you need space.

Not that much. And depends on the game. If you are playing flight simulators you need zero additional space. I have a small room and it is enough space.

> And there are so many of them

It's the first time I hear that. There's Vive, there's Rift (and now the Index). Forget about all the Windows reality or whatever it's called. That's not much.

> And the storefronts don't match

Who cares. Get your games from the Steam store. Same storefront.

> And there are no games

Debatable. There's quite a few VR-only games, and even more games that support VR (even the good old Skyrim has VR support).

> And you sweat.

That will never be solved, you are moving after all. If you are talking just around the headpiece, than it's a case of YMMV.

> And they're heavy.

Not really. May be a bit inconvenient, but at least the Rift doesn't seem to weight more than my bike helmet. And, you know, I move much more with the latter.

> And you need a monster PC

No you don't. That's again game dependent. The kid's $600 PC runs all VR titles he cares about just fine. You just have to prioritize the GPU, as you should with any 'gamer' PC.

> And it doesn't work

It works great.

> It's a gimmick.

It's an uninformed opinion. You need to try it, rather than regurgitating opinions you saw somewhere.



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