A guy at work bought one of these & we tried it, it just looks like a mass of huge red green & blue pixels in front of you, but I guess it will be better in a few years. It also clamps down almost air tight on your face and makes you sweat like a bastard.
If they figure out how to record what a person is seeing with this it would be interesting to see what would happen if someone were wearing it at the point of their death, or maybe just loop getting laid infinitely.
What was that Kathryn Bigelow flick with Angela Bassett and Ralph Fiennes? Tom Sizemore and Juliette Lewis were also in it. Strange Days, that was it. Remembered while I was typing.