I am neither slothful nor do I neglect myself in any way.
I work full time in a demanding IT job I love. But that is exactly why I love my Rift. Since when did any environment on earth have 50ft tall luminescent purple mushroom forests? Not too many mountaintop redwood forests populated by unicorns and giant butterflies in Long Beach, and floating islands in the sky connected by rope bridges.
Mind you, to go to anywhere in RL, you have to drive, get provisions, pay for gas and perhaps a park fee, plus set up camping. With VR, you stay in your boxers and t-shirt and put on a headset and a couple of button pushes later you are in a place that looks like Pandora in Avatar, or a Jurassic forest where you might come upon a friendly dinosaur munching on leaves (or a hungry T-Rex). That is why it is virtual reality and not the real thing. VR allows you to experience these cool and unique things on a daily basis in the comfort of your own home. In the time your coffee machine takes to brew a pot of coffee, you can go diving in VR and swim with whales and sea turtles without getting wet.
You owe yourself the experience of VR even if you do it in a Best Buy or Walmart where they might have one set up.
Once you have done that, you will instantly understand why I am raving about this technology. I see very little drawback to it, including the price. For that same $399, you can't buy a game console which is nowhere near as entertaining as VR. Yeah, you have to have a gaming computer, but that power can also be used in all your other apps.