If you're talking about those rumors about HTC selling the VR division, they were not only proven wrong but HTC announced a new standalone VR headset called Vive Wave.

It doesn't sound like they are confident with the Vive in general, but with how much it costs vs it's marketing and titles going for it, I wouldn't be confident either, but they should pick up the pace and do more with it. 

Well, HTC is confident enough on Vive to sell part of its phone business to Google instead of selling the VR part. That should be enough of a proof. But of course, HTC isn't Facebook and they need to make money from it.

Also, the Vive is still the best VR solution (helmet, controllers and tracking system) out there.

We'll see just how long they hold onto the VR dept and pushing more with it.

Yes, Vive is the better headset in terms of performance and tracking, but it's no good if the company drops it within a few more years. 

I feel it's the opposite.

VR has sort of stalled in recent time... Oculus Rift, HTC VIve have gone nowhere.
Playstation VR hasn't exactly set the world on fire in total units sold.

Hardware isn't reaching any kind of decent marketshare to make software development viable... And then you have the software devs.
Eve online developer has abandoned the VR ship, Guerrilla Cambridge got closed by Sony, Occulus shut it's VR film studio...
Crytek and Ubisoft haven't really seen any sales success with it's VR titles.

And then the hardware cost of the peripherals is almost equivalent/sometimes more than a gaming console.

I feel like there is to much hype and no substance in regards to VR.

That would be neat. I wonder what will work better. 'Inhabit' one party member for optimum immersion, or 3rd person VR to control the party. I haven't played it, is it still classic 3rd person style?

That's not my experience, it has been exceeding my expectations for basically an early access version of VR.
Prices have gone down, new headsets keep popping up everywhere.

Perception is skewed though. It's not just a peripheral, for me it's the primary display to enjoy games. A lot cheaper than my projector or 4K tv by about 5:1.

I hope Skyrim, Fallout and Doom make decent money in VR. Nothing wrong with experiencing old games like new. I would love to replay Fallout NV and Dishonored in VR. Oblivion, Fallout 3 I'll re-buy as well. Bethesda is sitting on some great stuff for VR. Dead space, Bioshock, heck plenty stuff from last gen that would be awesome to play again in VR with hands.

We will just have to agree to disagree.

As for it being your primary display, it's not going to be the case for everyone.

I too hope for VR to get a ton of success, I just don't see it right now.
AR however has shown it has a ton of potential, Pokemon Go being a prime example... And then you have the potential of Hololens which might be pushed by Minecraft.

Notice how many games are using dynamic resolution scaling and/or TAA these days?
Future PS, Switch and Xbox could run back-compatibility on these current scalable titles.

Maybe not so important for annual games, but next-gen consoles
could run current games much better as PSPro and XboxX have shown.

What's your take?

I expect each new mainline console from the big 3 to be backwards compatible this time around. Before they had to move away from unique or dated architectures to more standardized ones, now there will be no excuse. Frame rates should be more stable, dynamic resolutions should top out, and hopefully a good number of games get patches to take advantage of the new hardware.