Please help out a clueless old mom. My 13-year-old son has saved $350 and now wants with all his heart to buy an Oculus Rift.
I know I can just say "no" to this, but I don't like to be knee-jerk reactionary ("It's unfamiliar to me, so you can't"). I don't know enough about it to tell whether or not its appropriate. Yes, I have Googled the Oculus Rift quite a bit, but between not being a gamer myself all the jargon and casual machismo on the gamer discussion boards ("Yeah I threw up, big deal") it's all kind of whaaaat? to me.
So if anyone has any opinions on this at all, I'd love to hear them.
Here's what I can tell you about the kid in question.
I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this.
I know I can just say "no" to this, but I don't like to be knee-jerk reactionary ("It's unfamiliar to me, so you can't"). I don't know enough about it to tell whether or not its appropriate. Yes, I have Googled the Oculus Rift quite a bit, but between not being a gamer myself all the jargon and casual machismo on the gamer discussion boards ("Yeah I threw up, big deal") it's all kind of whaaaat? to me.
So if anyone has any opinions on this at all, I'd love to hear them.
Here's what I can tell you about the kid in question.
- He just turned 13 and is going into 8th grade.
- He's very smart.
- He's very creative (builds things from scratch, especially flying things that actually fly, rockets, functioning cardboard replicas of advanced weapons, air and water foils, etc.)
- He's very incredibly unbelievably lazy when it comes to anything he doesn't want to do. His room is a pigsty, he doesn't seem to grasp what a trash can is for even though I've formerly introduced him to ours numerous times, and so on.
- His grades are absolute crap. Well, they're crap because he doesn't turn in homework, even homework we've sat on his head to make him complete. But he aces all of his tests. Yeah, he's that kid.
- He would do nothing but play video games all day if we let him.
- He gets ocular migraines.
I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this.
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