A 9 year old showed me games on Oculus Quest 2. They were awesome to him, but to me they were terrible. I thought "I would never buy this. This looks awful. I don't see the appeal.". It's astonishing how he doesn't care about stuff that bothers me.
He didn't have any expectations. He was like an empty book yet to be written. While I on the other hand, had a whole vision on VR and how it ought to evolve even before his birth. So I'm naturally disappointed, while he is not.
This speaks a lot about how much expectations play a role. It did not occur to me while I was thinking about the future, that these expectations would make me feel worse in the future. I wish I had no expectations, but it's too late for that.
In 2013 I thought "So Radeon 280X has 4 teraflops today, doubling every year means 4 petaflops in 2023 - that's what will be used for VR then.". Here we are in 2023 and Quest 3 has 2.5 teraflops (vs 1.25 in Quest 2), 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage at $499 MSRP without tax. In 2013 I thought that in 2023 a single virtual world would be taking terabytes of space. It all seemed so logical, I thought about it all a lot and even talked with others in real life. I tried Oculus DK1 very early.
To make you understand better: Quest 3 SoC (Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2) has Adreno 730 GPU and 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth. For a comparison: that's how much Radeon X1900 XTX had in Q1 2006. But it was for the GPU only. Quest 3 has 51.2 GB/s for
everything. It has to share 51.2 GB/s for every part of the SoC. PlayStation 4 had 8 GB GDDR5 176 GB/s in Q4 2013 and so it was and is faster than Quest 3, even when having less flops. And XR2 Gen 2 has a higher maximum power draw than XR2 Gen 1. So battery life won't improve.
I'm personally more interested in PSVR2 (especially in Gran Turismo 7) than in Quest 3. But that too is too expensive for what it offers and there is not a great selection of things to do. Metaverse is just science-fiction and Zuckerberg's dream with current technology.
For the foreseeable future, I'm going to keep playing normal, non-VR games on a normal screen. I like my PS1/N64 games in a small window, not PS1-like graphics stretched all over a large VR view (even though it still is kinda like looking trough binoculars). And $1000+ headsets will never become mainstream.