More than that, I think the underlying problem is that people simply don't want VR/AR. Decades of science fiction writing has convinced us that it is the future, but like..why?
The problem with VR/AR is that they anything but frictionless or perfect. They are expensive, uncomfortable and limited. They are a million miles away from what's depicted in sci-fi and likely will be for decades, perhaps hundreds of years. If anything, the sci-fi dream works against them by illustrating just what a stark difference there is between fiction and (artificial) reality.
It’s an unfixable problem. Instead of fucking around, why don’t they just make siri be like cortana in halo. Give me a cute hologram in the real world with a GPT model behind it.
Every house in the world could have a siri pod. Your phone could connect to their siri pod and let your siri come out and talk to you while you’re at their house. That would be some real science fiction. Imagine siri popping up in your car and directing you or warning you about pedestrians it can see that are about to step into the road.
AR glasses could replace your phone, TV and computer monitors. Of course we are a bit away from that future but just replacing screens alone has the capability to shake up the world.