If you've got an old phone and $10, a 5 year old could have some fun looking around with Google Cardboard. The product was unfortunately victim to another Googl

If you've got an old phone and $10, a 5 year old could have some fun looking around with Google Cardboard. The product was unfortunately victim to another Google product sunset in March of this year [1] but still works, and it would give you an opportunity to see if they actually like it and check how vulnerable they are to motion sickness. The lag and accuracy are pretty poor (depending on the phone's processor and accellerometer/gyro) but there's no sense spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a 5-year-old's whims. Unless, of course, they're actually your whims and you're using "my 5 year old wants it" as a perfectly valid excuse... My 5-year-old has fun playing Mario on my 20-year-old Game Boy Color, but has no idea that VR or VR gaming is even a thing. Maybe I'll get him a Game Boy Advance SP or a Gamecube in a couple years...there was a Penny Arcade or XKCD or similar webcomic a few years back about someone who had artificially restricted themselves to games and systems released 5 years before the present so they could savor the improvements in game design without dealing with the availability issues. It was presented in jest but is actually a reasonable system, and saves a lot of money in the process! [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/googles-vr-dreams-are-dead-google-cardboard-is-no-longer-for-sale/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/googles-vr-dreams-ar...