Virginia Heffernan Sums Up the Oculus Rift: It "doesn't make you vomit"

Virtual Reality Fails Its Way to Success. (The New York Times Magazine, 11/14/2014)

Immersive, transporting, revolutionary. But most of all, non-nauseating. That’s the term that sets the Oculus Rift apart from the long line of demoralizing virtual-reality Edsels that preceded it. The chief asset of the Rift — more than its dazzling specs, more than Facebook’s sizable investment in it — is its dignified, non-emetic quality