I don't completely agree with this thesis. Sure, when the goggles are put on you're tricking your brain into thinking what you are seeing is real. This is not necessarily true. What happens in the virtual world does not coincide with what happens in the world outside of the goggles. If we started to adopt this idea that the VR world is the real world then we would begin to neglect aspects of life and to an extent even ourselves and our health.

My question here is why is virtual reality interaction so appealing to us? Sure using it in a pandemic sense could be nice, but think of the downsides. People could start interacting over virtual reality and never go back to in person conversation, just like a lot of people continued to work at home after COVID. We could lose the genuineness behind a conversation if we're only looking at a virtual version of someone.