> VR is going to be where almost everyone spends almost all their time I believe that (current, conventional) VR will always be a niche that only sees widespre

> VR is going to be where almost everyone spends almost all their time I believe that (current, conventional) VR will always be a niche that only sees widespread use when conventional AR headsets can deliver VR experiences >There was a time when humans lived in the wild, and nobody knew any different, and any talk about living in cities would have been met with derision. Cities have been an integral part of the human experience pretty much immediately after a society got farming down, and switched away from the hunter gatherer model. >it's not even that many years away. > I'm talking about a version of VR where it literally feels real. This is transhumanism. We are so incredibly far away from being able to do high-precision prosthetic limbs, a fundamental baseline for understanding human/animal i/o signals. The state of the art for ocular nerves is something like 32x32 4bit grayscale - and that's not even being shipped as a product! Evenfollowing a pace of technological development that exceeds conventional televisions (a much simpler technology, that doesn't require surgery to install), you can expect to have full color and high dpi visual prosthetics in the 2040s - at the very earliest. The timeframe for delivering this a transhumanistic experience is, in my opinion, so far down the line that talking about it in anything but the abstract doesn't contribute at all to the current discussion about AR vs VR. > A really good VR world solves basically every pain point of the physical world. This is not a really good VR world. This is a transhumanistic future that requires decades more research. I actually personally believe we'll get there as a species, and I'll be lucky if it's towards the end of my lifetime. What you're describing is not "virtual reality" in the conventionally agreed upon sense, but rather something called "transhumanism".