Another kickstarter project that looks interesting:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

this would go pretty flawlessly with vo imho.

good luck getting one to play with though :P

The Rift is really for developers, it's not really meant to be a consumer product.

John Carmack talks about it at length in his Quakecon keynote presentation, and again along with Michael Abrash (Valve employee) and Palmer Luckey (Rift creator) here.

I'm disgusted that VR hasn't already become ubiquitous.

Actually they talk at even greater length about it being for consumers.

Where? Carmack mentions quite often that he's a little scared how fast the Rift Kickstarter blew up since he feels most people backing it probably don't really realize what the Rift is and isn't.

I think the confusion here is that the kickstarter is about getting dev kits into game developer hands so that when at some unknown point in the future the consumer version has been hashed out and released, there will be games on the market that already support it. The existing Rift is not the consumer version (which will supposedly have better specs), but the overall goal is to create a cheap consumer VR headset.

Right. The first truly consumer-ready VR headset will likely have far greater resolution, lower latency, and better sensors than the Oculus Rift will ever have. It may be the "Oculus Rift 2" or "Competing Product X", but it will probably exist within a year or two.

I'd buy one.

And yeah, the kickstarter is for a developer preview kit and tools. The rift is designed to be a consumer product, but it isn't at that stage yet, and the kits are not the final product.