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> people don't want to _______ all day and look like a moron talking to beings 90% of the population can't see.

You mean, like radio and telephone and television and computers and smartphones?

Oh no. Oh no no no. I think it's pretty clear that VR headsets make you look like a moron at a whole new level. Take away a person's eyes—hide their eyes so that they seem to have none—and you take away a lot. Put them in touch with a private world and you make them even more alien. Radio, telephone, even television can't compete with that level of moron-looking.

I assure you people said those exact same things when radio, telephone, television and smartphones came on the scene. Since that last one is pretty recent, I'm sure you would remember all the comics and satire around people being absorbed in their iPhones and whatnot.

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