It's not that FPS games don't work, it's just that they have to be designed differently in order to create presence, and provide a pleasant experience, something that running around and jumping like crazy will not do.

...steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a baby. You wouldn’t shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn’t go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman’s grieving widow. And then steal it again!

...am super excited to see what kind of algorithms and applications could benefit from this kind of architecture: artificial intelligence, computer vision, ray-tracing, etc...

Please, oh Anonymous Coward. Please dazzle us with your great creations in VR. We're all very interested to see what your great creative mind can achieve.

Then it's magic. If the brain is formed by neurons that work within a certain logic and mathematical model, then it's computable.

How can a university have so much money?

Sorry, but it just seems wrong that institutions that are made to educate people and provide venues for scientific research, to become money hoarding corporations. How much research could they do with a fraction of that money?! The educational debt in the country continues to increase while all these universities hoard more and more wealth.

I wonder if this kind of mass parallel computing architecture, can lead to more efficient ray tracing algorithms.

"Once your hearing is damaged, it is not recoverable"

Isn't the whole point of the article to show us that that statement is wrong?

This is what regenerative medicine is all about. A decade or two from now, you'll see that a lot of the problems we face now with "irreversible" damage to the body and loss of tissue, will be treatable and made reversible by regenerative medicine. That includes damaged ears, ligaments, bones, skin, and a bunch of other tissues and organs.

Would be invaluable!

Apple researchers develop new finger swapping technology for the next iOS!

Far from that. I think that VR gear has multiple purposes. But none of them involve people walking down the street with it.

Please elaborate what you mean by "in public". Do you expect people to walk down the streets or sit in restaurants wearing a VR headset? You do know what VR is, right?

Show me a HMD with 100 FOV, high resolution, low latency ( ~20ms ), with 1:1 6 DOF tracking, weighting less than 250 grams for $200 and I'll commit suicide for you pleasure. Hell, you wouldn't find something like that for a million dollars in the past. The technology just wasn't there.

...3 years from now, and hear from the people who today think VR is a fad or just some gaming headgear. God, they'll feel stupid!

Who never had LP's and good sound systems back in the day, don't realise how much CD's took away sound fidelity with it's 16 bit 44khz digital encodings. It's about time someone made a push towards increasing quality. Specially now that storage space is so cheap.