But those concerns were inherent to the thing. Probably wouldn’t happen, but given the humility of knowing there may be consequences you don’t know, they considered those possibilities - and decided they were worth the risk.
This thread, however, implies the whole technology should be foregone because somebody might do something bizarre with it to someone else. From someone who has been following VR from the beginning (I still have an iGlasses in my attic) and has seen plenty of hype/hysteria about it, my reaction is: [groan] shut up already, that’s stupid. Might make for an interesting movie plot, that’s about as far as that “threat” is going. The concept fixates on the VR part, overlooking (like with criminals & guns) the bullies part: their goal is to abuse someone somehow, VR or not, with plenty of ways to do it.
The whole notion is silly, but in keeping with the Mommy state we seem to crave. I’m looking forward to trying VR, but suspect the graphics will be wholly inadequate.