I certainly hope so! I would love to see it grow and grow and become more pervasive in our lives. There has been a whole lot of hype, and I do hope it lives up to it - I just don't see the Rift as being the answer in its current form.

That being said, of course everything develops, so it will be interesting what kind of stepping stone the rift is, and whether the momentum of it can carry through further, smaller innovation.

Exactly. "VR is the next big thing" is the new Linux for the desktop. I like to use the adoption among women as a litmus test: no technology will gain ubuquity unless it gets women excited. I fail to see that for VR headsets like the Oculus. It is more like a Palm Pilot than a modern smartphone.