[bsanr2]

I think a lot of people's passions are driven by a hole in their heart, that they hope their work will help fill somehow. I suspect that no small amount of the enthusiasm for XR is due to a deep and abiding desire to be someone else, somewhere else, among the people developing or early-adopting for it. Of course, it doesn't have to be so high-tech; much non-profit or social work is prompted personal experience with the presence, or lack thereof, of the service being rendered.

In the end, I don't know if any of that works. But what's being subscribed doesn't seem too far outside the norm. Deprivation often leads to desperation for even a taste, however imperfect it may be.