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by burnt-resistor 106 days ago
They're a perpetual zombie sci-fi product category like flying cars.

The obsession may be a memetic contagion of utopian, cult-like thinking.

In reality, there are few real use-cases for VR and AR hasn't (yet?) but hasn't been made practical enough to overcome their limitations. Both AR and VR devices are still generally unwieldy and impractical even with the latest generation of miniaturization. Modern VR still generally takes over complete visual input (with a few pass through options) and typically has to be used in a static, controlled environment.