> Will VR be the new "hot thing" like smartphones were after the 2008 recession I don't think so. Mobile phones were already a significant thing before 2008 an

> Will VR be the new "hot thing" like smartphones were after the 2008 recession I don't think so. Mobile phones were already a significant thing before 2008 and the morph to smartphones was already in train (first iPhone was 2007). VR still has to emerge from a relatively small set of niche use cases. Augmented / Mixed reality is more likely, given the ubiquity of good cameras on smartphones. Arguably AR/MR will let the phone manufacturers keep pushing device upgrades for longer, as the smartphone market saturates.