KingofGnG: It's still too much for what I consider an expensive toy that will become almost useless in a year or so...
It's not expensive at all, but I completely agree, it's useless.
As a technology enthusiast I am pretty much in awe of what Valve was able to achieve. I watched it being built from early prototypes to a shipped product and I have tremendous admiration and respect for the engineers who created it. They are all brilliant professionals and I could never measure up to their skill and mastery. I remember my first test of it. It made me sick and gave me a major headache, but I was put INSIDE the game. (It was TF2.) Then, some months later, a second test. It was in a small room with RQ codes all over the walls. The experience was amazing, no sickness at all, and I was shocked to experience real fear of heights while standing above a bottomless (virtual) pit. It felt THAT real.
All of this said, as a gamer, I am completely and utterly uninterested. Unless we are talking about a space sim (basically a game where you sit in a chair in a setting that has no defined top or bottom) there is nothing this technology can do to enhance my enjoyment of games. Maybe eventually it will evolve into something useful, but as it stands right now, Vive, Occulus, etc. are all gimmicks so far as I'm concerned.
