Hmm, nope I think you missed
my point
I get what you mean though. So long as you know you are in VR, you miss the magic of actually being there.
That said, VR at one point in the very distant future will be imperceptible. You would not be able to tell if you were there or whether you are in VR. It would look the same, it would feel the same, it would sound the same. Every one of your senses will be completely fooled into believing it is real. The only difference would be that if you tripped and fell into the canyon, you wouldn't get hurt in VR
I guess you would still
know you are in VR, even if you couldn't actually tell. So yeah, you couldn't say "ive been there" if that's what's important to you. But the actual experience of it in VR and in reality would be identical.
This will happen, it is not a pseudo technology or fantastical dreams. It's just a matter of increasing IO speeds of current computer brain interfaces. CBI's already exist, they just don't yet have the bandwidth to drastically interfere with any neurological activity. But just like silicon chips once did, that bandwidth is doubling every couple of years. They reckon within 20 years there will be significant enough bandwidth to say, real time translate someones speech into English. No matter what language they use, it'll sound like a normal English voice to you. Eventually there will be enough bandwidth to completely alter all neurological activity at once in your brain, essentially giving you a false reality which is indistinguishable from a true one.
Sounds like too much cool aid, but it's all verifiable with a bit of research