You seem to be accepting the article's claim that Mark Bolas was the "primary inventor" very uncritically. The idea behind VR goggles is decades old and has be

You seem to be accepting the article's claim that Mark Bolas was the "primary inventor" very uncritically. The idea behind VR goggles is decades old and has been commercialized in the past in things like the Virtual Boy (1990s). I don't see what Dr. Bolas invented that was so interesting or novel, although his lab may have been good at throwing together prototypes cheaply.