This is a great post - top quality content. I just resteemed it. I think you may be right about VR. You sure know much more about these matters that I do but in the 1990s I blasted away a few VR aliens in my socked feet in the first (I recall - or one of the first) VR CAVES in the UK. The headsets were much heavier back then.
Thanks, glad you liked! I remember some of the older polygonal VR games, as well as the ill-fated Virtual-Boy system. I don't think any of those had any impact on my thoughts on VR, though. I grew up in a sleepy town without any of that big city stuff, so I think I might have got five minutes in one.