Reasons for lackluster advancement:

- Porn is a driver of VR (perhaps the biggest driver). As a porn-only user (no gaming), I value comfort/convenience over bleeding edge specs. I don't want to hook up my headset to a computer. I don't want to build a crazy gaming computer. So you can thank lazy (and horny) people like me for pushing companies toward less powerful standalones. I believe the shift towards standalone is in part a silent acknowledgment of supporting smut users (though they won't ever say it).

- Leading on from the point above, the focus right now is on pancake lenses. So expect more comfort but less power gains in the short term.

- If we assume the logic that porn drives VR then any bottleneck in porn creates a bottleneck in vr. Currently there are no native VR video recording cameras that go above 8k. So a 12k VR headset has little upgrade value to a porn user.

- Perhaps the biggest issue of all is that VR is so lopsided towards vision that it should just be called "VV" or "Virtual Vision". It's not "virtual reality". If it was virtual reality this would recreate all the senses, not just vision. We've have little to no advances in touch, taste, smell, temperature in the last decade. This brings down excitement for the entire category.