Reminds me of the show upload. That show started as this future Utopia and turned into a dystopia the moment you saw the wider world and how the technology was being used

I appreciate that this article didn’t use AI image for it

VR dev: Guilty, I’ve had this thought. Wasting power to play games or just chill in vr is… suboptimal. especially while we still have an ecosystem we can enjoy in many places.

These box screens are real it’s called The Cave, I’ve seen one in person and it’s actually a very convincing 3D effect with the tracking and they render it for your perspective