Samsung Gear VR, the wearable accessory that allows you to strap a compatible Samsung phone to your face and see the virtual worlds within, got a new version that now costs only $99. That's without the phone of course, so you will have to BYOD. 

Oculus, on the other hand, is bringing some much needed expansion to the content side of the equation. There's games, movies, TV shows, streaming video, all becoming available in the next few months. This is widely expected by our tech journalist colleagues to finally bring VR into many more homes. We tend to agree that that's a very real possibility.

Among the more important content partnerships are that with Fox, who's bringing over 100 of its movies to the Oculus VR Cinema, and Lionsgate. But what's really expected to bring VR into your average Internet-connected living room is the fact that Netflix follows suit, as will vimeo and Hulu in the fall.

Kids will be able to stare like zombies for hours on end into a VR version of their favourite gamers' video feeds via Twitch. Hooray!

Facebook also announced 360 degree videos that will become available on the news feed. Disney, Vice, GoPro, Saturday Night Live and others have already been signed up to produce content.

We expect a version of VR goggles to come out soon enough with an Intel Realsense or similar technology, so we'll be able to tune into someone's surroundings in realtime. Microsoft's Hololens seems like a perfect tool for such scenarios.

It's without a doubt exciting times in the area of VR. Now, whether it will falter like 3D TV has, or live on to see another "day", it's too soon to tell. We will be following the developments closely.