Seems like most of your issues with it are to do with the particular implementation, which I can agree with. I'd wager that as the tech gets more mature, a lot

Seems like most of your issues with it are to do with the particular implementation, which I can agree with. I'd wager that as the tech gets more mature, a lot of these issues will be solved. VR goggles are like headphones. I might be devoting much of my sense of hearing to them, but not all of it. I'll still be able to hear if someone knocks on my door, prompting me to take them off. As the VR goggles tech gets smaller, this will become more convenient. The neglecting parents probably won't hear their baby knocking, but I'd argue the VR goggles don't make a difference here. This is an issue of bad parenting. When you have a child it means you choose to devote a lot of your time to them, and VR isn't any exception. Just because you put on some fancy goggles that make yourself blind and deaf doesn't excuse you from taking care of them. You have to choose between making limited use of the tech and caring for your children. Then again, isn't that true for almost everything about your life after having a child? Ironically, VR is a lot like leaving your house. It makes you unavailable to everyone in the house, like going to see a new movie. No sensible parent would leave their baby alone if they went to see a movie, at least not without someone else to watch on them while gone. Of course you don't actually leave the house completely, so we could develop tech that can help detect and notify you if there's something urgent in the real world that needs your attention, but this won't help bad parents who don't care, because in their eyes the baby is only a distraction. They'd probably just disable those features.