DK2 "Presence" fades over time for Developers?

You make an interesting point about getting used to improvement in gaming (8bit,16bit, 3d, etc) and ever mounting expectations, I guess was not expecting to get "used" to VR that fast!

Well maybe it's because at the moment what we see in VR is behind the curve of what we are taking for granted on normal gaming (resolution, full effects, super high frame rate if we want it i.e. BF4 on ultra at over 100fps here). Once VR catches up in hardware and the GPUs are good enough to run it at today's normal gaming levels then we should be on a level playing field. Of course by then normal games will be able to ramp up even higher, maybe a problem that will always face VR. If you only stick to VR though you won't notice that :)

But as of today we've all played such high res stuff that VR currently feels like stepping back a generation or two on the eye candy, but imo is more than worth it - but it does need to get to a certain level to compete. When the flaws stop being so obvious (graphically) we can focus on software (pun intended) more easily instead of seeing pixels. I will be behind VR all the way, I've been getting less and less interested in normal games over the past years so am glad to see some new tech that resets things and we get almost a fresh start (like going from the early 8bits to todays top spec PCS, we are currently in the '8 Bit era' of VR which is better than not at all - and look how fast we progressed with normal gaming)

With performance optimisations and future better HMDs and especially well thought out VR specific software we'll more than likely stop worrying about the wow factor and focus on the games again, then VR will feel indispensable - go back to flat screen gaming, no matter how pretty, and feel totally uninvolved!