^ This a thousand times over. Everyone forgets VR has been 5-10 years away since the 1960s![0]
You can't obstruct people's eyes - glasses get a pass because they're a handicap, and folks with sunglasses communicate by wearing them.
We will need to live many more rounds of evolution to give up the idea that covering your eyes to 'go somewhere else' won't be a survivally threatening move...
and what's more, we're just starting to fully appreciate how smells and air (quality, pressure, etc) play a role in 'us being there' - don't even begin to think about the small gravitational pull between all of our bodies at a concert.
Long story short, it will take a long time and a lot of generations to die off before we appreciate VR as much as a physical experience.
You can't obstruct people's eyes - glasses get a pass because they're a handicap, and folks with sunglasses communicate by wearing them.
We will need to live many more rounds of evolution to give up the idea that covering your eyes to 'go somewhere else' won't be a survivally threatening move...
and what's more, we're just starting to fully appreciate how smells and air (quality, pressure, etc) play a role in 'us being there' - don't even begin to think about the small gravitational pull between all of our bodies at a concert.
Long story short, it will take a long time and a lot of generations to die off before we appreciate VR as much as a physical experience.
[0]https://virtualspeech.com/blog/history-of-vr