So can they if your wearing head phones... or if your asleep... or if you go on holidays.... so I guess you should never do any of those things just to be safe.

Also you have it backwards, the issue isnt the technology, its the people that break into houses.

But good scare tactic by you.

Dont use VR or you ll get robbed.

even if it turn into a hit, it will never replace tradictional tv and couch gaming market, imo.

People probably said the same about radios and tv's.

People still listen to radio, and most people have one in their car, maybe one at home, and listen to it over the net, but its much smaller today than it used to be, and TV is gigantic.

Same could happend with VR headsets, in the future.

Can you imagine what would happen if you were on holiday, at work or asleep?! None of those things offer burglers anywhere near the opportunity that VR does. VR is a burglers dream and at 2 - 3 in the morning, when burglers tend to work, there are going to be millions of people playing VR. All the burgler has to do is find out who bought VR, check in through the window to see if you're using it and then check to see if anyone else is in the house. This isn't going to end well.

There is a prototype production model with still a lot of unknown specs.
x86 processor, 2gb ram, 60hz, 30 degree fov and 802.11ac wifi is about that has been released.

Anyway not meant for gaming for the foreseeable future.

VR becoming a hit won't do much to XBO, beyond where it's currently at. Sales for XBO have obviously been declining YoY which is why MS has so many huge promotion with insane bundles and discounts during the holidays to make sure numbers crack the positive line YoY when it's all said and done. It's unfortunate for MS, because the XBO actually turned out to be a good console with good games (although too many 360 sequels, but 2016 will aid that) once it's all said and done, but they shot themselves in the foot prior to even hitting the starting line.

If VR blows up, PS4 will obviously become even more successful and cross the 100m mark even faster than anticipated.

XBO will likely stay steady around the 8m - 10m annual sales for at least another year or 2 once they can release the XBO Slim for $249, which is more than likely happening this year since the new fabrication nodes are already being made by AMD, and the XBO already has tons of free space already. So 2016 should bring the XBO slim for $249, and bundles for $299 around September, then have even more discounted bundles for the holiday pushing them to the 10m mark IMO.

2017 will be a bit more of a struggle with the PS4 slim launching and dominating sales.

2018 will likely be the $199 XBO Super Slim (with cutbacks from non-essential parts).

And we'll likely hear about a XB4 in 2018 - 2019, with an expected launch for 2019, although it's possible they want another head-start and rush for 2018, but if they want maximum performance and power than 2020. And I think they're going with NVIDIA next go-round since they got burned on the AMD deal by being forced to go with either lower hardware, or much more expensive since Sony nabbed the prime candidate 7970m / R9 M290.

2018: Force Gen-9 early, performance around GTX 970.
2019: Standard Gen-9, performance around GTX 980 / 980 Ti.
2020: Maximize that $399 - $499 console launch performance : price ratio.

I don't think anything would happen this gen as it's something that would take quite a long time to address.

I must admit that, assuming there's another generation beyond this one, I'm really curious to see if they all feel compelled to launch with VR available. I suspect it'd still be too expensive as a pack in, but the tech should be cheap enough that even nintendo might look into it.

I suppose it all depends on how well received VR is.

Well, no. Except they'd go for ARM. ^^

They got what they paid for, in many ways. Maybe the neXtBox has a better concept from the start.

As for VR, if it's becoming a major success MS has a ton of possibilities, it's not like they have none. Thing is, companies aren't actually that sure that VR will be a mainstream success and last for some time.

Microsoft got the chip they wanted, for the price they where willing to go at.

The reason the Xbox One isnt more powerfull is because of how expensive kinect made the machine when it launched, so MS went with a cheap chip, to lower the overall price of the consoles production.

Thats not getting burned by AMD, thats bad design choices by MS themselves.

You know who keeps burning people in hardware deals? Nvidia. I seriously doubt MS goes nvidia next gen.

I think they want x86 for next console, and a APU again, so they can have true backwards compatability with their Xbox One, on the new Xbox Two.

VR will not become a hit.

But even if it did become one, it might accelerate the Xbox downward spiral a bit. Won't be that important either way.