The killer app might be live sports. Did you see the guys setup watching the Masters? Having one of the best seats in the house to your favorite team from the comfort of home would be amazing. But that experience is not available.
For most sports, the reason to not sit at home watching on your giant TV is to have social interactions with other people at the event.
Yes and that’s only a subset of the social interactions. Many people prefer to have friends over and enjoy home cooked food and liquor store priced (cf. stadium prices) beverages. Watching the big game on a giant TV with friends is not going to be beaten by clunky headsets any day of the week.
Sports maybe... still not really sure why we don't have body cam's for a lot of sports so I can experience it from the players perspective. Would work better for some sports than others. Maybe that's a WIP.
I'm an avid golfer and watcher of Golf on TV. I'm not entirely sure I want to watch The Masters in VR. I really enjoy The Masters but it's still a social event for me on Sat/Sun at a bar and Thurs/Fri it's up on a screen near my work computer.
Every so often they try something clever with video to try to give you player POV or to make you feel "part of the action" and it drives me absolutely bonkers because it takes you out of the game and you lose all sense of the flow.
Admittedly this is because they just do ham-fisted cuts - a full POV throughout a game would be different, but for a lot of the sports I watch it just seems like it's going to make watching the game as a spectator more frustrating.
Many years ago, I bought an Oculus Rift and one of the apps was for broadcasting NBA games. I watched one, and it was great! And then I went back to watching NBA games on my television. It was definitely better in some sense but not enough to change my normal viewing habits.
The company that broadcast NBA games in VR was acquired by Apple.
