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In a world where everyone could buy the headset for $3.50 (thus there is no profit value to buying it and then re-selling it) then that percentage actually makes sense.

Presumably the question is being interpreted as "would you buy a Apple VR headset if the standard price was $3.50?", rather than "would you buy a headset for $3.50 that you could immediately resell for 1000x that?".

The answer seems plausible with that interpretation.

Don't you think that even playing with it for an hour and then never touching it again would still be worth a three fiddy?

I do but I can imagine that 16% of people don't.

If you went out with a VR headset and offered 30 minute demos of them to random people for $3.50 I don't think you would have an 84% success rate.

FWIW, I think the discussion here this highlights the biggest problem with the approach. Either it's confirmatory and wasn't a question worth asking in the first place or it's surprising and people need real data to evaluate the response.

One of our major weaknesses right now is sensitivity to price