Exactly. Had a similar experience in the Vatican. Coupled with restrictions on photography and the like. And it won't improve as more and more people are in a f

Exactly. Had a similar experience in the Vatican. Coupled with restrictions on photography and the like. And it won't improve as more and more people are in a financial position to travel (Chinese middle class, as one example). I think initially people will decry virtual tourism as inferior but eventually cost and convenience will make it very popular. And then we'll see a seriously blurred line between true tourism (Versailles, for example) and enhanced (Westworld, shot around Moab in Utah) or completely invented worlds (Avatar). And another blurred line between those sorts of traditional experiences and the same being gamified at varying levels.