That's the problem with generalizations, perhaps it's not the same people...

Plus why does it make you look like a jackass?
Why do you care what you look like in your house?
You don't have to be in your living room, it works anywhere!

Oldest gimmick? Yeah I'm pretty saturated with all those VR games I played in the 90's, oh wait.

Wii sports was great and some other stuff as well you probably classify as shovel ware.
PS eye had some fun games, Kung fu live doubled as great excercise as well.
PS Move was great, yet I guess shovelware too.
I skipped on Kinect as I didn't believe it would work as advertised and I already had eye toy, DDR mats, ps eye, wii mote+, balance board and ps move, enough motion controls. I still use the balance board and both wii motes and ps move controllers in just dance. Life is more fun if you stop worrying about what hypothetical others might think of you. Hint, they don't care.

Can't wait to get my hands on a VR device.

is that what I said?

I'm saying that most ppl here or anywhere else that speaks against it hasn't tried it yet. I'd didn't say I don't understand how anyone that has tried it won't like it. 

I think it's kinda weird that so many people that hasn't even tried something can draw so many conclusions from thi n air. I'll only listen to a VR naysayer, if they first tell me they have actually used the device and used it for more than one game. 

I've tried it, and to be honest..... I'm yet to meet a single person that has tried it and doesn't at least wish they can afford it. not that they don't flat out want it. 

I've seen some try it and say it's not that great, does that mean they are in denial or a hater?. What happens if I try it and suddenly don't like it, are you just going to go "it's not for you but VR is objectively the best"?.

The way you make it sound as if we all have to like it or we're people that are liars or an easy way to just brand it as "not for you" without being able to criticize the peripheral.

Also we've evolved as a species to be able to judge things based on our taste, smell touch and vision, there are times where someone knows what something may know how painful something would feel just by looking at it, same can be said for smell in order to get a sample taste of something. Telling me I have to put my thumbs to a bunch of plastic sticks in order for me to know how a game plays isn't really completely accurate and just, not with how popular and informative LP's are these days, especially the times I've watched friends playing a game and knowing I'll like or dislike it before I even but my thumbs on those pieces of plastic.

" I'll only listen to a VR naysayer, if they first tell me they have actually used the device and used it for more than one game. "

So why do you want to fight them?, is it because you're really heavily into VR and want to defend it because you like it and think it's unfair for others not not like it?, why fight them at all and just go on with life, if they don't like it after trying it then that's literally all there will be to it, nothing to come after that unless of course your main goal is to persuade and shift them back to what you like and what you think they should like.

The people you have met don't really account for every single person on the planet and they haven't accounted for me at least.

70% of the voters think that it is worth the price, not a bad percentage huh?

VR to me couldn't be a more segregated and pointless exercise in technology if it tried. In theory, yes, your looking at Minority report levels of epicness, in reality, your not going to be able to play a game for 10 minutes without getting a headache.

The two main formats are going to sell well initially but just like wearables from the past (HMZ) they are not going to catch on. Count me out for now.

errrr.......ok?

Potentially. Games like Loading Human and First don't look very promising but Battlezone looks good.

I hate to tell you, but the PC VR headsets need a PC considerably more powerful than a PS4 to use them. So you are up for $800 for the PS4 VR set up, but you are up for a lot more than that to be able to operate on the PC side. Though if you are plannig to get a better gaming PC then you can write that down as an already locked in expense. However, if you take the OP's view of the world and thing, well it's $800 either way, it would seem that PS4+VR and a stock standard gaming PC will give you the best combination of large games library and VR.

As to the OP, I'm not sure which opinions he's thinking have changed. Kinect was being criticised as spyware because it had an always online, always plugged in requirement, as originally conceived. The PS Eye, which has been around for ages and has a pretty decent sales record up to now has never been an always on always plugged in thing, and it still isn't. And the last time people talked about Kinect in terms of spyware was in 2013, before MS did the 180 on all things dodgy. People now mostly just see Kinect as irrelevant, since it's got basically no game support. So the question really is whether people think VR will have long term game support.

Hopefully Sony, Facebook, HTC and others see that the way to success is to make it easy for games to operate across all systems and not try dominate and force all others out of the game.  The best way for VR to succeed as an entertainment platform is for the install base to be as big as possible with as little fragmentation as possible. So that means multiplatform titles. I hope, for instance that SOny only has timed exclusivity on Battlefront VR. It should come to PC VR eventually.

I like the concept of the technology and see that it can do a lot to enhance the gaming experience. But I just don;t see how I can justify the price of entry for myself.

To be honest I tried Rift about a year ago on my mates epic PC with Battlefield 4. I thought the Star wars Battlepod in the arcades recently was alot better. Using head motion with static controls felt odd with current VR. Aiming and looking really didn't feel right in the current VR setup. If I ever go VR I feel I would need this.