[quote]inevitable arrival of VR proper and how it could possibly impact our lives.[/quite]
The major impact will be more pornography for the profits and more caterawauling by demagogues who demand to see all that pornography for free in the name of moral absolution.

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/chiral.wrl
Cortona recommended as plug-in viewer

So it's a virtual reality molecule. What did you want, pornography? Can you find the RFID microchip in a US Postal Service coil of 100 first class stamps? How has that impacted your life?

VR. BFD.

Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz3.pdf