Virtual reality for the masses is here. But do the masses want VR?

The next six months are of crucial importance for the future of VR, if products such as Oculus Rift are to avoid being remembered as yesterday's tomorrow

At an Oculus Connect event this week, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg announced a small change to the Oculus Rift, his company's virtual reality headset, which will have massive repercussions for the technology over the next year of its life.

It wasn't the news that the company is working on a standalone VR headset, nor that it's now selling in-ear headphones for $49 to go with your rift. Instead, its a small technique added to the Oculus development kit with the odd name of "asynchronous spacewarp".