It’s got its good and its bad. A whole lot easier just to stay home but I suspect that, like my late father-in-law, when it comes to an end I’m going to miss the travel.
I would suspect that the speed of communication will continue to advance remarkably, while the speed of travel will remain stagnant.
Eventually, virtual travel will be regarded as better and more efficient for most purposes.
Then real travel will be reserved purely for the sake of being able to say, “Yes, I was really there, and I saw it.”
For those of us who wear glasses, if seeing the world through a display device very like our glasses were a possibility, it would be very easy to fool us.
Then the next step is bringing the other senses along. Hearing is obvious and easy, but others are rather muted. Their physicality can be relatively easy to simulate.
Virtual travel will seem real enough when simulated reality gets enough bandwidth.
Something times for me it is better to have been there than going there.