I would have thought the inclusion of displayport/hdmi stuff is the important piece, but it is the power?
My work PC has one USB port with a lightning symbol, which means I think fast charging ready, but not necessarily this virtuallink thing I have not read ever in any USB ports symbols explanations...
VR1 had its own power supply for the connector box, and the headset was powered via that and USB or whatever? So maybe they can make just some small power box again with the special USB port out and HDMI/DP + USB + 12V in. I would not expect such a thing costing more than 5-10 bucks, maybe selling it for 19-29 bucks? Putting it in for free in a revised package. Afair splitting HDMI was not really easy either when VR1 came out hence the many cables in its first iteration, but with the second one they basically already did a one cable thing, so I guess a company sitting in boards deciding about standards should be able to make easy solutions if necessary and not rushing a release.