With some gamer friend circles I'm constantly in this double bind wrt how I talk about VR.

If I don't invest in it I'm out of touch with real gaming scenarios, too 'casual' to acknowledge high-end configs, pandering to the lowest common hardware denominator, no optimism or imagination for what high-end PC gaming looks like in the future.

If I do invest in it I'm frivolous, all about motion controls, all about Wiimotes, EyeToy and XBOX Kinect, out of touch with traditional gaming, rejecting of keyboard and mouse gaming as stodgy, trying to replace everyone's CoD with Dance Central.

I have to fight so hard for any kind of middle ground, or nuanced position, in ways that I haven't had to for LDA or 3D stereo. Where I believe in the technology, I buy products of the technology, at the same time I don't expect a future where it's as ubiquitous as the internet browser and that's OK. I love VR and there's a place for VR to live alongside traditional setups. The huge checks being written today around metaverse-type products consumed in VR are feeding into this and creating polarization, it stresses me out a lot sometimes.