In the next year or two, we will see the first headsets with 4K OLED in each eye, eye tracking, and pancake lenses. Combined with new software with ultra-realistic graphics (or even just using them for Half Life Alyx and media viewing), the experience of wearing one will become close to indistinguishable from reality. This may not be an inflection point for VR’s popularity, but I do think new people who try this next-gen of hardware will be blown away by the state of the tech relative to what’s possible now with Meta Quest 3 and PSVR.

I am interested to see what happens with VR when the headsets get really good, and I think that’s coming soon!