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As a Gibson fan: this sounds like his robot avatars from The Peripheral and the VR glasses from Virtual Light.

In his most recent book, Agency, he describes 'laminar agents'. They're basically uncensored multimodal LLMs that can see the world through VR glasses.

Interestingly, Neal Stephenson named his metaverse company Lamina1. I like to think he named it after the term in Agency.

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I think of Rosey from Jetsons and Detroit: Become Human for the dystopian realities that are probably more likely than we'd want

Having a Hololens 2, an experience that is worth trying, just waiting for FOV to improve, and to a lesser extent for the form factor to shrink. I would use the HL2 for monitors if the FOV was there, it's really light