Lot of critique and comments that maybe one day the tech will be there, but not yet. Or maybe it never will bc it's solving a non-problem. Here's a good one.
The tech will never be transformational though. It’s a replacement product so is not going to improve productivity in my opinion, not in isolation.
Alternate take: VR is awesome, right now, and ready, right now, to disrupt modern work life.
I work at a full-remote company where we do VR meetings for some of our meetings. Everyone at the company has a headset. We spent a year figuring out how to do it, make use of the tech. We use a 'good' commercial headset but it's evident that the headset tech sucks and the headset software super-sucks. Just laughingly bad. And even still, those of us who've been on the journey over the past year are like: holy shit, this is already such a big improvement for the things that it's an improvement for. Imagine what a competent VR vendor could do? Imagine what a good business model could do?
Even the current shitty tech is good enough. From what I can tell the AV is an order of magnitude better, and I expect more companies to do what we're doing once they see what it's good for. The only thing that would prevent this is a mass migration away from remote work, and I don't see that toothpaste going back in the tube.
It's similar to btc in some ways, actually. What needs to change is people's expectations and beliefs and paradigms of how computing is deployed; and, just as importantly, the dominant paradigm about what it means to work with a distributed team.
But those changes will come because what they unlock is awesome.