I don't like lumping VR and AR together, because AR is huge while VR is lame. I think the VR advocates like to attach AR to their name to try to get legitamacy. VR will always be niche. AR may very well be the future of gaming. There is a big difference.

I have an Oculus Rift, and I've dabbled with the Virtual Theater, but I much prefer to watch movies either in an actual theater or on my 55" tv.  I don't think wearing a headset will ever replace that for me.  The gaming applications are very cool though.

i see them converging as one when the tech is available to project items in a room with out the need of a headset.

at the moment i have tried psvr and i liked it.

i have not tried any others due to the high price of gear, and not to mention a complete computer overhaul, which is NOT happening at today's prices so that's is still at least 2 or so years away of even considering a new pc build, so no telling what will be out then.

It's true that on the tech side they go hand in hand.  On the business side they are as different as night and day.  I've seen VR struggle for decades now, while this little AR game, Pokemon Go, comes out of nowhere and becomes major phenomenon.  I mean if you are only interested in purely the tech then you are exactly right.  But if you are interested in where the games are going, then they are going to AR.  The VR people can only fail so much before they go for the much easier money in AR.

I have quite literally been playing VR for decades now.  I was optimistic about it when I first tried Dactyl Nightmare, and it was also pretty cool when i played the Aladin VR game at Disney Quest.  But also Nintendo's biggest flop was the Virtual Boy.  VR has been around for decades now and has been tried in many ways.  Even at it's best it is extremely costly to develop for, and considering Disney Quest closed down, I doubt all the money they put into VR was really worth it.

Then this AR game, Pokemon Go, comes around and becomes a huge success without hardly even trying.  It is so much easier to make money with AR.  The business reality is that AR games are going to be the focus in the future much more than VR games.

The Virtual Boy had nothing to do with virtual reality. It didn't use feedback from body and head position and movement. The viewpoint was still a tiny rectangle in front of you with no immersion whatsoever. There was no illusion of being in the virtual world, no looking around yourselff... it was just a HMD with a pretty bad stereoscopic effect and lack of different colors, nothing more.

Disney Quest got a constant stream of visitors for almost 18 years despite no reinvestments and totally outdated technology. The fact that they could stay open with that outdated tech is close to a miracle! And even if they finally closed down in 2016, many new VR entertainment centers with much better tech have opened up in the last years and are keeping the torch burning.

How can you make a thread about VR without the mentioning of Pavlov VR? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwcHnG8EDTw

This game is pure fun.

Jep, VR offers a complete new way and immersion of experiencing this stuff and I can't wait to see this being fully implemented in games. Pavlov is still early access, but the developer is still working strongly on the game and will do way more enhancements to the game like modifying guns in real time.

i think i'll wait for the holodeck to be built lol.

Have fun waiting for the perfect device... we will have fun playing VR games until then.