[grepex]

I wouldn't say delusional. At the top of the decade it did seem like it was a plausible evolution as remote work became more popular, what with the pandemic and everything.

In Ready Player One, what made VR so ubiquitous was that the real world had gone to shit. Perhaps that is the true prerequisite for widespread VR adoption?

[UncleMeat]

Ready Player One is a novel.

Basing our technological predictions off of what was interesting in a sci-fi novel is a terrible way of going about things.