Pokemon GO is a Augmented camera, a tech demo for true AR and magic leap like technology.

Ah, this is 90's VR argument is getting extremely old in many ways, there is video evidence of the people who tried to bring VR forth that they knew they could not get consumer VR for 200 quid without causing people to puke against there promises and that they got trapped in those promises. They lied. They knew the tech wasn't there yet. To call anything before current VR (2012, DK2) anything less than a massive bust would be false but to actually compare todays PCVR or even PSVR against that tech, that's fucking laughable, it shows you haven't tried new tech to compare which makes everything you're saying two decades out of date and completely redundant.

Because you like Pokemon GO has nothing to do with VR and is only a product of the tech you have in your pocket, if it's the most advanced phone it's most likely available to you on some plan that requires no real financial investment and pales in comparison to the AR tech that has been teased and needed for true AR , like the magic leap/Holo lens. It's like commenting on the Dactyl Nightmare as you mentioned and saying, hey, this is the future. 

You keep pushing these "realities" like they are fact but it's clear you have no interest in the matter and you're just parroting what many other people who have said many, many time, else you'd have a better argument than their exact words. As I keep saying, AR proper, as in the magic leap and MS holo lens will take the business route first like PC's in the 80's and 90's and grow strong enough that way to grow a consumer presence. if you are put off by the high cost of todays VR which attempted to boldly cross straight onto the consumers plate and find it inaccessible you will certainly be a lot older by the time AR takes off proper and if and when AR grabs those games then VR will most likely already have had something like them and worked out much of the kinks paving the way for dev teams but like video games (and vr) now the quality, high end experience isn't going to be on your phones screen, that's not even AR like I said but an augmented camera.

Try current VR, look into how long it'll take proper AR technology to get around to you in a package you'll be able to buy into on a consumer level and maybe I'll continue this. Otherwise, go back to pokemon GO.

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

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1. Expect to wait a long, long time. That tech is taking the business route for sure, proper AR i mean so we aren't mistaken not the augmented cameras on your phone, and it's going to take an extended period in business and industry to incubate to consumer prices. I have a little faith in the Majic leap but I think it'll be drastically more expensive than VR devices were at launch and be a hell of a lot more restricting. That good thing here is it'll cement its self by taking the same route as PC's and Laptops much better than it would jumping straight to the high end consumer, it'll also garner more faith as the potential will unfold before the eyes of the average consumer without jealousy bringing down the image of the products. 2. VR is here now, this decade and with a very wide catalogue of games, life's to short to continue waiting if you're interested, you could be hit by a bus and never try it, there could be a majour recession, perhaps the whole crytpo mining will kill the whole consumer computing industry.

If only someone would implement communications technology and meld it with AR so the phone companies can get the shit on data plans so it can go straight to consumer and evolve hundred fold within the decade like mobile phones and tablets...hmm, oh wait, Google tried and it got laughed out of existence...pity.

1. The thing about AR is that it can take many forms. It might not take much more than what we already have for AR to explode - or it might be just like you said, but I think AR is versatile enough to find an affordable way.

2. VR is here and now, but it's still quite expensive, plus on PC it requires some fairly powerful hardware to accompany it. Personally I'm not convinced of software either, even though the situation has definitely improved. Still, I don't think there's anything revolutionary out there that would make me really desire VR. Right now I consider VR a thing that would be nice to have but not for the price it costs and what you get for the cost. I don't have much experience with VR but enough to see what the fuzz is about - and also enough to see that it's unlikely I would find paying the cost justified at the moment.