To be fair, from what I can see the first phase won't involve either flying or driving (it specifically says that players will be able to purchase ships in phase two), so unless they are putting in some VR capabilities for FPS stuff - which I'd have suspected they'd have mentioned - then I'm not even sure I understand why they even mentioned VR in the announcement. Presumably they just mean that you won't be able to get the flat screen representation of the game in an HMD, but will have to use a monitor.
Hopefully VR will be implemented in phase two and onwards (and that they give players the means to buy ships cheap). For me phase four when they will insert a snapshot of my current CMDR into the alpha and I can go flying and driving in the new planetary tech is what I'm looking forward to.
I just hope the mention that there'll be no VR when no VR would be expected anyway is just a mistake and not an indication that flying and driving in VR won't be available when the actual game launches...
