Virtual Reality is a gimmick

"You know what would improve gaming?  If you strapped a pair of goggles to your head that blocks out everything in the world around you, gave you two incredibly imprecise, glitchy Wiimote-like controllers, made you stand up and twitch around like you had ants in your pants, and let you play incredibly limited, gimmicky games that had no advantage over traditional games!"

Sigh.

It's an expensive new shiny bauble that attracts people who want it to boost their own self-worth and status.  That's it.  They can show people how disposable their income is by buying an overpriced machine to run an overpriced pair of goggles with two screens and an accelerometer paired to a couple of glorified Wiimotes to play casual games that even phone gamers would get bored of in two minutes.

We're in a sad state of hyper-capitalism where people actually define their status by how many laughable, pointless, expensive toys they have that aren't generally considered worthless only because of excessive hype and lies.  If the VR fanboys actually listened to their heart and said that their expensive little bad toys weren't that great, they would feel bad about themselves and their self-worth would diminish.  Being defined by our toys is a pathetic effect of our greedy, narcissistic, capitalist nightmare of a society.

It was hilarious when the whole VR craze started taking off that Google, of all companies, basically released what I thought would end the entire thing by showing how ridiculous it was -- a pair of goggles made of cardboard that held a smartphone to show how ridiculously oversimplified and cheap VR was.  But no one wanted to take notice, because other companies were so keen to jump on the terrible VR bandwagon, launch aggressive viral marketing campaigns, inflate and lie about their sales figures, and help its brainwashed fanboys attack with lies and FUD about the reality of their campaign to sell this snake oil.

Let VR die, as it should have long ago.  It's absolute trash that does no one any good.  It's cheap yet overpriced gimmicky hardware running on expensive systems to add a pointless 3d effect to games that can be just as easily done without any glasses to shut you off from the world around you and keep you from crashing into things.  Oh, and don't forget the motion sickness most people get from the damn things if a game dares to move around too much, making games even more limited than they are.  

VR is trash and it should be dumped in the landfill next to all those Atari VCS E.T. cartridges from the 80s.