The price is keeping people away. Once it gets less expensive more people will have it.

I've been keeping an eye on the Vive and it's so far the only headset I've got an interest in, as well as those knuckle controllers, which seem perfect for what I'm looking for in a headset combo. 

The Vive has the worst lense/screen option of the actual headsets. If you do that go for a Vive Pro.

That's why I'm keeping an eye on that Vive pro. 

More than one major startup has a goal for mass market neural interfaces within 10 years (medical within 5). Could be twice that time, but we'll hopefully live to see the true cyborg era flourish. 

It's basically full sensory VR, like you're in the world. We likely won't be hitting that lvl of immersion any time soon... : <

Once upon a time, my mom bought me a Sega CD. It was this new add-on tech, totally revolutionary at its heart but in the end, ahead of its time and fizzled out without much fanfare.

Fool me once, but never twice. I'm not falling for this generation's Sega CD. Maybe when the tech matures and finally delivers on its potential.

I specifically wrote HAND-tracking, and not headtracking. I can see how that would be confusing though.

The opening poll asks if people feel they need to wait for a new tech iteration. I certainly will. I don't consider any of the current sets the real deal yet. I consider them a waste of my time, and yes, I have spent some time with the HTC Vive, and I like where it's going, but I consider it to still be a tech demo. Without pupil tracking for proper depth perception and hand tracking for natural interaction, I don't really care about the technology as a consumer.

Incidentally, your analogy with smart phones is better than you might think. I waited over eight years from smart phones emerged until I got one because they were too impractical for my liking.

I agree that current phone tech isn't there. But it is a question of a few years before phones will provide experiences that matches or exceeds those of PC-tethered sets. They have a much shorter period of time for tech iterations.

Though smart phones have struggled with introducing any new input/output standards at all since the very first iPhone, so what might happen is that the VR standalone sets end up showing everyone how it should be done.

So you're the guy who waited two decades for gaming to finally deliver on its potential too?! I suspect you didn't even try it yet, at least you sound like it.

What a nonsense comparison btw. It's like you never bought a PS1 because you though the blocky graphics didn't look as good as your Sega Mega Drive's 2D Graphics.