Immersion is not a gimmick. People with no depth perception get sick from playing first person shooters as it is now. That tells me the answer in VR is fixing depth perception. The answer is simple. Make a screen for each eye thus enabling stereoscopic 3D.  Otherwise yeah you're right.

May I ask what your experience with VR to this point has been?

Spoiled rich kids have smart phones? What is this 2009? It's 2016, almost every kid has a smart phone. They're succeeding PC in many regards because they are much more convenient.

But any way, VR is an awkward gimmick that seems like a dumb idea from the 1990s that some really unimaginative people still think needs to happen to be the future, just like computers whose primary interface is vocal conversation. It's not going to take off.

Always nice to see an insult thrown in the mix. Because saying that it doesn't seem like a good idea to you is not enough.

add education. also, a lot of young people a suffering from neckproblems these days due staring at screens all the time. vr might help to prevent that.

Not true. It depends what you see. Some VR experiences make zero percent of the Population naseous its entirely up to the Software now. 3D was pushed on US from the Big Industrie VR happened through the Support of the people. Until the Big Industry picked it up. There was never a comparable amount of support for 3D 

Yes, all those reasons and more. Cinema quality VR headsets could be VERY disruptive in the film industry. VR sports that let you sit in a choice of the best seats, with 3D audio and the ability to look around.

Does the tech to broadcast 360 degrees videos exist? Like a special camera that captures every angle?

Not if you're Fetty Wap. 😐

They better slash the price asap or will lose momentum, just ask 3D TVs.