What's the point of that if you're still wearing glasses to see 3D. Sure you can also plaster the walls with tv screens that don't require glasses yet that would be far too expensive for home use.

Lightweight self contained VR/AR glasses are the near future. Eye tracking and foveated rendering will bring the computing requirements down a lot, while mobile chips are getting more and more powerful. The only real bottleneck is battery tech. Still better to wear a portable battery in your pocket than always be tethered to a console or PC.

In a couple decades perhaps holographic projectors will be affordable and something like in the movie Her will become possible.

That would help with motion sickness and the aversion to wearing headsets. The best possible immersion will still be reserved to headsets though.

In the far far future I think a direct brain interface will still be easier than creating a star trek holodeck. At least until we have control of gravity, inertia and matter creation.

What exactly is the appeal of a direct brain interface?

More than likely there will be no gaming consoles within the next decade. All will be streaming services.

That's a terrible vision of the future. What would happen to consumers when the services were discontinued? Or if specific games were discontinued on the services?

Cloud Gaming is definitely the future for consoles, the question isn't IF it's When.

They will buy it and like it. History has shown that people will gladly give up ownership for convenience. We barely buy CDs anymore. We have iTunes instead. Same wiith movies. We have Netflix now. Games is the next natural step. Eventually it will get to the point where we don't even remember what physical ownership is in a decade. Access will be the new ownership.

But what about all the money companies have already made from hardware development? How would they possibly recoupe that?

Software makes the money in the video games industry, not the hardware. With a cloud service the already high profits seen from software could sky rocket. No high price for entry as no need to buy specific hardware to run the games, so you have an absolutely massive potential installbase, and more ways to monetize such as digital renting and more subscriptions, it's basically going to be a gold mine once the tech is there, assuming it's done right.

By not sellling physical hardware anymore. And not selling physical games. The profit ratio will be huge. Think about it. They sell a game, and they don't have to worry about selling consoles, or games. Instead they could just sell controllers with high profit ratios and watch the cash roll in.

I have to disagree there, I mean it's VIRTUAL REALITY! Ever since people watched Star Trek TNG or The Matrix people have been longing for that. And sure the "VR" we have now isn't comparable to that, but it's only going to get closer and closer. People are going to continue to work on VR technologies and getting a more and more lifelike experience.

I mean the buzz will probably start to die down and the VR gaming scene might start to become pretty stale or even desolate for a few years but it's not going completely away, and it'll be back again once technology advances enough for another major leap.