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Why VR has Been a Massive White Elephant so Far and How that is Changing
Why Virtual Reality isn’t Taking Over the World
3 min readSep 25, 2018
When the shining light of the sector doesn’t believe the hype you have to start asking questions
- Oculus has made a move that signals to the world that all is not well in the VR space
- They have taken the unprecedented step to offer a generous return policy as a means to ecbourgae people to purchase the hardware
- If you hate the product you can return it no questions asked for 14 days
- This indicates that the user experience offered by VR is far from being ready for mainstream public consumption
- This returns policy is almost unheard of in the tech industry and is the biggest indicator yet that consumer reaction to the product has been overwhelmingly negative
- To stop disgruntled users throwing their headsets in a drawer and forgetting about them, it has had to offer this policy in order to incentive consumers to take a risk and try it
- It is obvious that the long standing problems with VR haven’t been fixed
- The problems are:
- Cost — The cost of a standalone…
