Cyber Café and Arcade culture. In USA the idea of internet cafes where people pay per hour of access to games seems absurd from what I know. People there needs to own the machines they use or they don't use it at all. It will be easier for VR to find space in countries like Brazil and China because there are more room for things like an establishment buying a bunch of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive and people coming in and paying per hour to experience VR whitout having to pay the very high entry fee to VR gaming and content. A model of business like this seems that just won't work in USA, if VR is too expensive to own there won't be VR cafes spreading like it's already happening in China and VR just won't happen. And this model of going to a Cafe and paying per hour is what made China the biggest market for PC gaming.

But the vast majority of those people just can't afford owning a PC or paying full price for games or subscriptions. This business model allowed to those people to be included in PC gaming whitout having to rely on piracy and very outdated hardware. You need to have a business model best suited for your market reality and product  than trying to force what works like USA for example. 

And VR I think has a better chance because the product itself seems to be better suited to an Arcade like environment than for home entertainment, I think it's very valid to push VR to homes, but I also hope Sony, Facebook and HTC have something in mind for this VR Arcade as well. 

arcades?? now that's a throwback :D

right between the gallaga and pinball machines right?

Arcades are a very good place to put more advanced hardware that would be much expensive or unpractical for a home console. This is the very reason they existed back in the day, I don't know why this culture died in USA. Japan has a very strong arcade culture for this day and some games just won't fit a home console. There are very good arcade games out there, and the arcade version of fighting games tend to be superior to the consoles version. 

Internet cafes are very popular in the middle east. not everyone can afford buying the console, controllers, tv, games, and extra accessories, so instead they pay a few dollars per hour. Very successful business

Yeah right, undevelopped countries with people with low income will support expensive tech like VR when they fight for daily survival...
Really??? Is this a joke thread??? Seriously these kind of tech tends to be even more expensive in these countries than in ours, a PS4 in Brazil costs almost as much as half a year of average income & you are saying that something way more expensive as better chance to sell in these type of countries???
... mind-boggling...

Good idea. I really like it.

Well I dont think that the cost of entry is that high that nobody is able or willing to buy it. Its around 2000 Euro if you do not have a PC and 1000 if you have a PC. Many people are able to afford this ofcourse not the massmarket as the tech is just not there but I guess that 1-5 Million people are right now willing and able to pay this price in all western countries combined and thats enough to kickstart the technology. I really doubt that low income countries are going to play a driving force in that.

Mexico, a third world country, has a strong culture of videogames, pc or consoles; it has the biggest videogame market in Latin America (more than Brazil in terms of revenue). Just because is third world doesn't mean that everybody here is struggling to live. I'm struggling to finish SMT Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker, though. There are several store chains that sells videogames and several café internet that serves the people who doesn´t have internet access at home. So the idea the OP said is feasible in countries like Mexico. 

This is the very reason it could work. Arcade and Internet Cafe culture are strong in Brazil and they also are in China. Actually China is the main driver for VR nowadays even the majority of the population being poor thanks to the VR cafes spreading everywhere. It`s easier for a business man buy some VR sets and place them in the arcades at the mall and the public going there to play them it is for a person buy a home set for VR. Selling directly to the final consumer isn`t the only business model for gaming. In Brazil it is common to have rental houses where we can play PS4 games paying per hour, since it`s so expensive those alternatives find a good public, and this just doesn`t happen in USA.