My thoughts as well.  Plus the price is roughly comparable to a higher end smartphone.  Given the hardware and software involved, it&#x27;s not terribly far off for a gen 1 device.<p>I think of the Palm and WinMo phones I paid $500+ for during the early generations of smartphones and it starts to make more sense.   And just as I&#x27;m sure those devices from Palm and HTC could&#x27;ve been a lot nicer even with the tech of the day, the price would&#x27;ve pushed into the $1000 range.  Gen 1 is always gonna be fairly expensive and still not quite as good as you wish it was.  With later revisions, price drops and capabilities go up.<p>The only issue I see here is that rather than looking at relative openness and ability to run in-development software on something like the Vive or the Rift, many people are going to look only at price and wait for something like a $300 Playstation VR headset that&#x27;s limited to whatever can be sold and approved for a game console.<p>As I see it, it&#x27;s still an early-adopter techie toy&#x2F;luxury so whether it costs $399 or $599, I&#x27;d only really buy it if I had that sort of dough in my &quot;fun stuff I don&#x27;t need&quot; budget.  Even as someone who bought a Rift DK2 at launch, I&#x27;m both waiting on buying any consumer device and not too concerned with the price difference between a $400 device and a $600 device.  If anything ends up striking me as really worth buying, I won&#x27;t just buy a lesser device to save a couple hundred bucks.  I&#x27;d rather wait until I see something I really want and will use and not buy anything at all until then.