As I predicted back in Q3 2016 VR is not going to be the big hit so many Reddit wannabe technophiles believe it will be.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-03-08-superdata-cuts-vr-forecast-by-30-percent

That is already a 30% reduction in the forecast, which is massive. So why is Virtual Reality not going to take off? Because it is a disconnected and dissociative experience. Inclusive experiences are the future, and still so desperately needed in the current disassociate landscape of technology that blankets modern society. The existing sales (the remaining 70%) are mostly bogus figures because units are being delivered bundled with other tech and given away for free in many cases.

Something strapped to one’s face eliminating from their actual surrounding every person’s most important sense, sight, is not a position most people will like to be in often. Furthermore, when you watch someone using a VR headset they look like an idiot, either bobbing and twitching (VR Tweaker I call them), or in a motionless zombie like trance sitting still with their mouth open as if they are in a trance. Anyone else in the room will be pointing and laughing at the VR Tweaker, or taking rotten selfies embarrassing the disconnected VR zombie.

Having VR headsets out there in the ether doesn’t mean anyone is using them, it just means they are out there, well so what… there are a lot of Wii Fit Balance Boards out there as well, and fake Rock Band Music Instruments tucked away in closets, that doesn’t mean anything.

Watch someone using a VR headset and what do you see? The user is no longer connected to the actual reality around them… and the technology instantly disassociates the user from the reality around them and directly excludes everyone else from the experience. Facebook should know better, they took over the world by connecting people, then dumped tons of cash into a technology that disconnects people. What they need to be doing is investing in technology that brings people together for useful purposes in reality.