VR in arcades doesn't make much sense compared to the home. It's a very limited use of the technology. Arcade VR games are never as good as real VR games.

It's better in some ways, and VR is better in others. You can't surely believe one is overall better than the other in everything?

And of course it's practical. It just needs improvements. AR too needs improvements, even more so than VR as it's still some years behind.

I'm going to stop you there. VR is objectively speaking the most connective technology ever created. It's the only way people can connect in a way that mimics real life.

VR will also greatly enrich our lives. I mean how can it not? Anyone having a panic attack can immediately transport themselves to a calm environment by a riverside. Someone who hates the state of their real life (like billions of us) can choose to escape for a bit. People who can't move or go anywhere can do so in VR. People who can't afford to travel can do so in VR. People who want access to high quality equipment can often simulate it in VR. People who want to live new types of lives can do it in VR, living a second life. People who want to try new things can do so in VR. People who want to become someone else can do so in VR. People who want to relive their memories of their wedding, birthday party can do so in VR. Someone who wants a productive work environment has a lot to gain with VR.

You don't see an advantage because you keep ignoring everything that people state. You don't like the idea, so you plug your ears, pretending you never heard anything.

Ready Player One has always shown where VR was going. The facial capture there uses mocap, which can likely be done just as equally well in VR in about 5-10 years:

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@darthbuzzard: Then the VR aspect is redundant as you don't need to see the other person from multiple directions if your are both sat still.

You are proposing simply displaying a 3d image instead of your face so a VR headset would be of no use.

I'm not sure what your point is. Video chat would work the same but at a virtual level, it's just a feature you can make use of. Your avatar can be indistinguishable from your real world self given enough advances.

The main use for communication would be two avatars in the same virtual space together. This makes you feel like you are with another person for real. Only VR and AR can do this.

Video calls can be done virtually using your avatar, which will in the not too distant future be an exact duplicate of you in real life. Well, as long as you want to show your real face. Your avatar will just become an extension of yourself. People already do interviews, video commentary, take selfies using their avatars.

Facial capture has existed for years. Even the latest iPhone models do this. It's also progressing at alarmingly fast rates and will be a pretty default thing in the next 3-5 years.

What is the main function of a smartphone? It's a multi-purpose device that evolved from phonecalls and texting. That was the unique feature of phones. VR is the same. You have the ability to do anything a smartphone can do, but much more. The history of communication works like this: Phonecalls -> Texting -> Video Calls. Now we have VR/AR, the next paradigm in communication, and just as big if not bigger than the aforementioned. Like the others, this will change how society works; it's that big of a deal.

The first article is mostly pointless in regards to the data used. As I said, it's mostly skewed to drive a false narrative.

The second article is still not as worrying as you think. There are quite a number of developers making full VR games at this point.

Just because you don't have the capacity to think about what VR enables doesn't make it so. You have things like social VR, telepresence with 360 photos and videos + reconstructions. Those are massive on a scale of the invention of phonecalls and videos. You have other things like being able to simulate screens, lifestyle and exercise, artistic expression, living new kinds of lives. Basically you have full control over the perception system. That is world-changing. I also only listed consumer applications, not any of the enterprise stuff.

Your first link is pointless and was already debunked many times in the articles it got posted in. It was mostly skewed data to make things look bad, not any real valid data apart from Oculus Go, which by the way, exceeded sales targets.

Your second link isn't that big of a deal. The quality of games coming out is only increasing. Developers are learning more, and there are plenty of big developers working on VR.

This is a sign of nothing. Do you say this about any technology that was in single digits? Because everything you've ever used was at that stage and stuck there for years.