Not wishing to pry but the two big reasons I tend to hear are one eye is bad which is not ideal but can be worked around, and if you are really lucky may even still get you a limited type of 3d if they split one eye in two, and motion sickness which can also be dealt with.
Assuming you have been playing since you probably gained the hand-eye coordination to do so (fairly standard around here) and your profile is accurate then you have likely lived through many different eras of it, and if you went a bit cheaper during that and dipped into the even older stuff then even more.
Or, you know, we don't have 1000€ for all the needed hardware for first gen tech that is going to be very outdated (and unsupported) every 6 months for a few years. And/or don't care about the applicable games, whether at this point in time or ever.
If you want the economy to grow, then convince them to make better stuff that will entice us more to buy them! You can't expect people to be fine with throwing away 500$ for something that is just a gimmick that will just be forgotten in a year or two... It's always been like that, companies should either make better stuff or enhance their already successful ones in a meaningful way.
My job is electronics engineer and programmer, I literally make devices and machines myself along with their OSs, I may be a consumer in this one case, but I know very well how things are and what I said is what pushes technology and the economy forward, innovation of the good kind! I've made devices and even a couple video games (never released them since I kept them for myself, plus no funding to complete them 100%) and I know that the business world is actually very simple, if you don't innovate and push the limits constantly, then the money will go to the one who does. Sure companies need to plan moves carefully, but high risk high reward decisions are important too. However, hardly any companies ever do that anymore which is why the technology has ended up in such a standstill with the only sort of high risk high reward choice made in the past 2 years was AMD's new hardware overtaking Intel and that's it!
Well, you can still chat/voice chat with people in VR. Or play music in the background. Or play multiplayer VR games. Or pull up a web browser and tweet/facebook or other dumb stuff like that. So I don't think your characterization of VR as being super anti-social is correct. As a matter of fact, having friends in the room while playing and alternating turns is just as enjoyable for all involved as any local multiplayer game I've played. Having avatars in games that move like real people (because they are real people) is a huge boon to socialization in games as well.
Oh, so it's not true 8K. That's too bad that it doesn't even have the option for rendering at native res, but it is modular so it could happen in the future I guess.
VR has more possibilities though. AR has to be based on the real world, but with VR you can be literally anywhere.
The people who think VR is a gimmick clearly haven't tried it. It's an entirely new way to experience games, far far more immersive than just looking at a monitor. It's going to change the way we game forever.
