Going on a major tangent, VR today feels a lot like the BBS era: too few people see the potential and future of the technology. Of those few who do see it, they tend to be geeks in their tweens and teens.
“Why are you typing on the computer on the internet? Why not just use a phone?”
VR already solves a lot of problems such as better sims for various applications, and more presence when interacting with people physically far away. There are plenty more XR centric solutions that are novel. However, just like in the homebrew computing and pre-internet BBS eras it’s mostly teens and younger who could understand and see the future
