The most accurate description that I've heard is that we're at the point where GUIs were in the 80s. The tech was just good enough for it and there were already several products on the market, but designers were still exploring the space and had not agreed on common metaphors yet. Which is exciting to witness, but shows that we're still squarely in the "early-adopter" phase of the curve.

(As for myself, I tried a friend's Oculus Quest extensively two weeks ago. Now I'm sitting at home, drawing up plans in Inkscape for how to rearrange my furniture to accommodate a room-scale VR area.)

VR-devices are good but still not good enough. New generations are much better than last that it completely ruins the experience with older hardware.

I tested VR-headset directed at professional use: VR-2 Pro https://varjo.com/products/vr-2-pro/ Now every VR headset directed at consumers feels like utter crap. PSVR and Vive experience is ruined.

If you are willing to cough up €5995, you get really blown away until something better comes along and there is still long way to go. Field of view is just 87 degrees for example.

The vive is so non casual though. I always felt like it was a big production to clear the space, launch steamvr, often wait for updates. Plus I’m moving around when I’d prefer to be relaxed on the couch.

On the other hand VR is amazing. I’ve since switched to the quest which helps with most of those issues I mentioned.

>I’m moving around when I’d prefer to be relaxed on the couch.

For some people, this is a good thing.

Demoing VR to newbies is one of my favourite things. It's so rare to see that level of excitement.

Vive>> cellphone VR.

The difference is incredible, and even cellphone VR was pretty cool.

I think most people haven't tried PC gaming and are stuck with cheap VR knockoffs.