Turns out nobody wants a closed-down headset controlled by Meta, no matter how slick it is. I do think we'd have seen an explosion of cool apps if it were open.
I was just responding to your claim that nobody wants them, when that's demonstrably not true.
VR is like Linux, it will never be used by the masses for the foreseeable future as there's just to much friction in using it. There is an audience for it in its current form though. Having millions of headsets sold, with multiple iterations maintaining the sales figures and multiple companies producing their own models is enough for me to consider it to have "taken off". In the simulator game space, especially cockpit driving and flying games, I think it's fair to say that VR has definitely taken off.