> When the average person's personal computing device is barely stronger than that phone graphics card it's pretty good.

That's ok if you aren't strapping two screens on your face and trying to get the to run as high a refresh rate as you can go.

As someone who bought into the new VR revival right away and followed the development of the initial headsets as closely as someone outside the companies developing them could, and has owned and currently owns multiple headsets, I can tell you my experience with VR is performance is very key, and that standalone VR is pretty garbage.