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Adding in fiddling with a cord will make me just slightly less likely to say: sure, it's worth the effort to get into VR right now. I really want a full body tracking setup, but if I have to wear special devices for it, then it's a no go. I don't mind putting up a bunch of cameras though.
Another issue is rotation, many people have a bias to the direction they turn, this twists the cord, AFAIK we aren't even close to having the tech to spin a high bandwidth (multi-gigabit) connection, I suspect that it may be possible to do with fibre optics.
But AFAIK most designs are looking at doing hip mounted or wireless supercomputers. We already have backpack supercomputers for VR.
Also, the Quest 2 is kind of old now, newer headsets are vastly superior with regards to blur and streaks.
As for nuclear propulsion being the only way forward, I doubt that, I suspect that chemical will be more cost efficient for a lot of the trips, especially for unmanned cargo trips.