Their latest show off of their VR was pretty awful at PSX

Looks cool.

I doubt that VR will be popular for local multiplayer situations like you describe. When people have friends around, they will probably rather go for other types of games.

But let's face it, playing local multiplayer video games is the exception, not the default nowadays. I'd say at least 75% of the time people are playing videogames they're not playing local multiplayer, they're playing alone instead.

I believe the same point you made could as well be brought up against online multiplayer.

@all: You know what I find strange? There seem to be lots of people out there who have extremely negative emotions when it comes to VR, at times openly saying that they "hate" VR and hope that it will fail. Why is a simple piece of technology (that they simply couldn't care about if they think it's not interesting) causing such strong negative emotions in them? Where does all that hate come from?

Opinionshminion. Point is, many people who are not impressed by VR and show a negative attitude towards it never really gave it a shot (or had a chance to do so) and are outright oblivious to the potential it has.

Well, some oculus rift reactions from some elderly people. Keep in mind, these are just demos. Very simple stuff, comparable to the first steps into 3D graphics in the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8Xj_I3aNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5eIHyFYFMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAC5SeNH8jw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technophobia

I dunno, I still don't think VR is going to go anywhere anytime soon.

Don't worry, I'm not agressive and totally open to people's opinions :P. On topic, I don't know, simulate a room to be with other people while you're in your own room alone seems... odd and weird. I get that a lot of people might find this attractive, and that's fine. It's just that I don't find any appeal and I think VR would take people of the real world, like a drug. Like I said, I don't like it, but if people find this techonology attractive, fine, unless it completely absorb the more traditional gaming which I found much more appealing. I find it cool for more inmersive experiences like a horror game or something like that. It will add to the experience. But just for that, to feel the atmosphere of a certain game more. I find dangerous that VR takes more realistic aspects, as a lot of people could be totally absorbed by it. Although I admit I'm a very traditional person in this subject. I found weird and odd Skype so it's my problem more than anything else. 

Yeah, I agee, local multiplayer is pretty much dissapearing. People don't usually meet to play games in the same room. I always find that depressing, because I still play with my friends everyday and I find that way more fun and social and healthy. I don't usually play online multiplayer in any game, so, yeah, the same point could be brought up against that. But I find VR more dangerous. Inmersion and simulation of dangerously realistic worlds could take people on another dimension, and be completely away from their real lifes. I know, it's almost sci-fi stuff and paranoic, but let's see what happens. I'm afraid that this piece of technology could be so much more than just that. 

EDIT: Yeah, I've just seen the technophobia post above, and that could be very much applied to me, I won't lie. 

I couldn't care less about VR. The games I like to play have deeply refined gameplay and I don't see that happening with VR. Maybe in a couple decades but I doubt it. It looks like everything with VR is from the first person perspective and there are very few games that I like that use that perspective. VR as it stands right now is trying to enchant people with the magic of VR by giving VR 'Experiences' and not gaming.

Perhaps when VR is really about gaming and not VR then I'll be interested.

I have to diagree. I've not seen a single impressive thing about Sony's VR yet. Still on the wait and see approach in hopes they they entice me towards it

I might get it if some hacker manages to run it on PC. Otherwise Rift/Vive all the way.

I'm 99% sure it'd give me motion sickness though.

What games have deeply refined gameplay that can't work in VR? I'm curious.

VR would be very suitable for God games and RTS with all the extra overview you get. With a camera it can project your keyboard floating in front of you in the game world and you can use all the controls you want. There are plenty VR games with 3rd person perspective as well.