Virtual reality: Is this really how we will all watch TV in years to come?

At the media industry’s annual bash in Cannes, virtual reality is the next mass medium that will take TV to a new levelVirtual reality (VR) technology secured its place in popular culture through films such as The Lawnmower Man and The Matrix, as well as books such as Ready Player One, which Steven Spielberg is adapting for a movie. They presented visions of technology whereby strapping on a VR headset (or, as in The Matrix, being imprisoned in pods and hooked up to a computer network by h