Yeah, at some point I think the novelty of being able to move your arms around to interact with stuff will get old. That happened with other motion devices. Motion experiences have been around for a long time now and I think we've learned immersion doesn't exactly add substance to a game.

What I find most intriguing about VR is just how it will make the normal TV gamepad titles a little more immersive, basically being able to peek around without moving the actual character sounds cool. But I don't need to manipulate things with my hands, that's more novelty and fad territoy in many cases.

It is a serious question in which Sony could bundle PSVR will every console sold starting next gen such as Microsoft did with Kinect during the beginning on this gen. Yes, I feel it's highly improbably, but you never know.

By all logic, VR should be the future. But for each passing day I'm losing my confidence about its success because there are so damn few people who are excited about VR. And that must mean something. It must mean that the owners of VR aren't convincing enough about VR's attraction. And if they're not convincing enough it must mean the attraction just isn't there.

VR feels really like a niche product. Almost nobody of the gamers on VGC is excited for VR, and even I am less and less.

One year ago I was very excited but now I'm only mildly excited. The problem is not just the high price, but the lack of functional games. I see current VR as the kind of "kinda cool" experience you only spend 15 minutes on here and there until the novelty wears off and you put it on the dust bin.

That people compare PSVR to the freaking Kenict is already very worrying lol

It will rather be like the NX. The headset is the console with possibly airplay to use it on the tv as well. That's probably gen x, 2021 is too early for that, although smart phone tech is going pretty fast. Yet for the lowest lag the processing power should be in the headset.
Gen 9, the last gen of bulky consoles?

PSVR itself might be remembered as a clunky fad, but VR is the future.

I have tried it and I don't see it lasting at all. The few games I sampled it looks cool at first and it gives a quick satisfaction that starts fading away after 20 minutes. The reason the excitement fades away is because you start noticing that you have a heavy set on your head and the  extremely big goggles start getting out of place after moving so much making them uncomfortable. I doubt anyone will sit down for hours with that thing on, much less finish a complete game like Call of Duty or Final Fantasy The VR set at most will be, just as other people have said, a Wii Mote or Kinect. You can use it for short sessions and then put it down and move on to playing without it.

Our definitions of "live" in relation to technology are very different. 

I don't have time for 3 hour game sessions anymore, an hour at the time at most. If VR can make that more interesting then perfect. Going away into a Myst like game for an hour a night sounds very inviting to me. Yet who knows, this sounds very promising: Sony's efforts here put them at the head of the pack - a great reminder of just how good quality Japanese design can be. I wore the PSVR headset for almost 12 hours straight during one day in putting together this review and felt no kind of stress, pressure or headache at all from the hardware. source Perhaps playing through a big rpg for multiple hours will be fine too. Sure, you'll put down the move controllers, grab a regular controller, recline comfortably and play at your leisure, looking around a bit with headtracking only.

sorry to say it but VR in general is not a fad, there was VR in arcades in the 90's although primitive to VR today people still want VR after over 20 years of VR being available, what will decide its fate is affordability but already HTC is already working on a new VIVE which should be cheaper than the current VIVE headset (using HTC VIVE as an example even though the thread is about PSVR vs Kinect), what separates VR from Kinect is the fact you are immersed into a VR world rather than just reacting to objects on the screen with a camera tracking your body movements, im sure in the 60's people thought 3d movies would just be a fad yet people still pay to watch movies in 3d in 2016, VR might be new to people under the age of 20 but for those of us over the age of 20 i cant think of anyone back in the 90's who didnt want VR on their home computer/console.

Kinect was never going to be used in core gaming. They tried to push it this gen and it failed miserably. PSVR has lots of potential and may be it will not be too popular this gen but is going to be much bigger next gen.