I’ve said for awhile now that mixed and augmented reality will overtake VR in terms of access-can run on your own phone and uses what is already there and appears to be more interactive (arguably). But there is another, more immediate and practical issue I did not think of, how hard it is to clean those VR headsets. I knew museums don’t want to hand out expensive interface devices (because they are broken, lost or stolen), but I forgot about the expense and hassle of tissues, regular cleaning and so forth of those on your head glasses that you share with hundreds if not thousands of other people.

Bring your own device, install an app or visit a WebXR-enabling website (https://elijahtai.com/state-of-vr-and-webxr/)*, and only you need to touch it, ideally you can take a memento home or share it with others…

*depending on your browser