In the far future, maybe. But as long as we remain trapped in physical bodies that fundamentally need to spend a lot of time out and about in the real world, a

In the far future, maybe. But as long as we remain trapped in physical bodies that fundamentally need to spend a lot of time out and about in the real world, augmented reality will fill a niche that virtual reality cannot. It’s just that the technology isn’t ready yet. Once you can buy glasses that do things like, say, labeling people with their names, or giving walking directions by visually highlighting the path you need to take… then AR will really take off. (VR also has a long way to go before it reaches its potential; it’s just that for various reasons its current state is more “demoable”.)