VR is this thing where the less you know, the more you believe in it. Anybody with the slightest background in information display will tell you it's abject bullshit but anybody who secretly enjoyed Lawnmower Man will tell you it's god's gift to entertainment and science. What I love is one of those quotes slagging on it is from Palmer Fucking Luckey, the original VR Grifter. This whole retarded thing came about because Zuckerberg overpaid for Oculus (for no good reason at all) so now Luckey's on the sidelines slagging on Magic Leap as if they didn't just take his playbook and run harder with it.
Palmer Luckey isn't the original anything, the VPL guys were, and in their defense they were mostly earnest hippies hanging out with Timothy Leary. Virtual Reality is probably much more impressive combined with LSD. Palmer Luckey read the The Virtual Reality Homebrewer's Handbook in the age of kickstarter. His achievement was reanimating a dead horse.