Price
Library
and how good the VR experience is.

in that order.

Whoever launches first in my opinion.

IMO the way to determine the winner is the level of immersion that the devices provide, it's a matter of how good the device is.

The amount of content and how good it is would also be important. I guess it's whoever provides the best in all of these areas.
Value for the device will also be important.

Depends on how many devs they can persuade into supporting it and which games.

Morpheus will have an edge since SCE devs will be told to support it. Multiplatform games I think will either support all VR or none.

This is the perfect time for MS to make a new flight simulator.

I said non-gaming content in the poll, although I think it's a mix of both gaming and non-gaming content.

Whilst it's easy to say VR is the next big thing for gaming (especially on a gaming forum), it's far bigger than that. This is a whole new medium with groups working on VR video cameras the possibility for actual VR film and movies is huge. If you're interested, take a look at Google cardboard's 'The Mission' trailer where you can look around as the scene is happening. That's not including the possibility of making interactive movies (think a Heavy Rain/Walking Dead style experience in first-person VR).

For VR to hit mainstream, it needs to be a good experience (the tech is pretty much there for that), the price needs to be as low as possible (we'll see how this pans out) and the content needs to be available. This includes gaming content but just as important are non-gaming uses.

I always feel like I live in the future when a thread like this one pop up =p. I am playing with an rift for more than a year now and had great experiences with it...And damned that thing is popular..Even when it is 350$ + shipping it can take months before you get yours (yeah demand is still that high).

I am not so hyped for Morpheus because you need a powerfull system for VR. 60 FPS gaming with VR is horrible and under 90 FPS it is recommended to not play a game in VR. I am not expecting great looking games from Morpheus so you need some original games. Maybe Sony can work with From software and make King's Field for Morpheus :).

I think it all depends of price and whether it works. In my opinion these two things are what's needed to even get VR off the ground.

When/If VR does this, I think it will all be down so what each of them offers, which we don't fully know yet.

I will instantly write off ones that make me motion sick.

I could be wrong about this... but I remember reading a article, about people trying the morpheus and compairing it to the oculus rift, and everyone agree'd it was a better experiance. Ei. Morpheus > oculus rift (at that time, maybe things changed or a newer better version of oculus got released since then?).

I think the platform (market size with hardware above X performance) + price is the desideing factor, not really which is better than which.

I think PS4 with morpheus has a good chance to come out ahead here, as long as its cheap enough to garner decent sales.

Why is it now a war?, it's a peripheral device not a new platform, it's no different than what MS had with Kinect, Wii had with the Wii mote and Sony with the move, this just seems like a war for the sake of trying to trounce all other options, which in this case is between PS4 and 3 other companies that happen to be behind PC.

The VR fad will certainly have a mainstream casual following on both platforms but I can't see one just trouncing the other like a twig and then that side simply stopping all production and ceasing to exist =/.