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In 1935 VR was literally a sci-fi idea, and the Internet was also in science fiction stories before reaching half of Earth's population. The average person spends 7 hours per day online. As technology improves, attention becomes a more competitive landscape and the amount of data we give up increases. There's a multi-trillion-dollar fight for our attention, and our brains suffer by devolving. VR is more of a niche, hipster product, but it will easily be bridged in the same way as the evolution of phones.