To play games? I love gaming as much as the next guy, but at the end of the day it's just a toy.
But you couldn't move to Malta and make a next-generation VR platform. You'd need funding, facilities, people to take care of managing these things. That's what I meant by bigger.
Yeah, no thanks. Once I get the construction crew out of my retirement home, I'd like to deal with as few people as humanly possible. I don't even like the social interaction of dealing with cashiers, I love the self service lines.
If I hit on a retirement hobby that requires more people, I'm sure I'll always just be able to just form a company and hire people to do the work with my swimming pool full of money.
I'd say VR headsets are as much of a toy as Otto Lilienthal's hang gliders. As such, sure, they won't do much more than cool games. But the future is obvious: they're a first step into the Matrix, and from there to fully fledged Mind Uploading. (It may not help us develop the necessary technology —though it may help us figure out crucial neurological facts. But it will give us a glimpse of what is to come.)
Not to mention, VR will probably help us get to AR, which will surely have an even bigger impact.
At this point, we're not looking at a toy any more, but at a Prophecy.
I'm not knocking that, I know lots of people who hit retirement and literally don't know what to do with themselves. So work gives their day structure and meaning. I'm not one of those people. For me, work gets in the way of what I want to do.
I personally cannot conceive of a job, working for any company (my own included) or any other person or group of people, that I'd rather do than those things.
That is my entire point, that I keep getting downvoted on like it even matters. That what I do today is the same thing that I would do if I had a billion dollars. That is I'd be working in technology (specifically software). I might use that money to build ideas faster but it really is what I am the most passionate about.
I feel it is the same for the Occulus Rift guys at the moment.
Because if you aren't passionate about what you spend your daily life doing (and consider it a grind) what is the point?
But you're getting downvoted probably because you don't understand that, as a consultant, you have a job, and you work for your customers.
Everybody who does work has a boss of some sort.
If being a consultant is what you'd be happy to do in perpetuity, even in lieu of retirement, more power to you.
The OR guys also now have a master. Facebook. Ultimately, their reporting chain is to Zuck and then to the board and then to the FB shareholders. They might feel really passionate about what they're doing, but it's not like they don't have jobs.
I think that this quote is very much true. Take it how you wish to.
It's not as if there's only one thing in life that I could possibly enjoy.