In reply to Pete.

Pete,

With all due respect, I have just stated my understanding/vision of VR future that has yet to come. Those points weren't prophecy of any kind. They might be totally wrong or could picture the future in perfect sense.

Nevertheless, I would like to reply to your statements hoping it would lead to a constructive discussion. Moreover, the last comment that I had made were written in a fast manner and reading it again I see that it had lots of mistakes in sentence structure. I will try my best to express my thoughts in proper English. Just to let you know, I'm not a native speaker.

1. Why will VR date out the browser? If anything browsers are killing apps atm and browsed are expanding into other areas. Browsers already are the predominant place to build software. Write once use anywhere.

Let me put it this way. World of Warcraft is played via keyboard and mouse. However, an advanced VR headset with remote controllers or even a futuristic VR cabin could/will eliminate the keyboard and mouse while the player(user) will have much more realistic experience of the game. Such games, movies or any other form of content can't be visualized in 2d screen which browsers are meant to be used in. The whole point of VR headset is getting rid of traditional monitors in favor of the headset.

Few days I played a racing game on a vr headset with proper wheel and moving car platform. It felt very real to me. The sound, visuals and even the platform I was sitting on moved according to the movement of the car in the game. It just loses the point to run that game on a browser instead of its own app because it would be inefficient, unproductive and unreliable. Because VR headset doesn't need the browser. You can directly access the OS.

As for the apps vs browser. The first search result on google tells more than I could write down to explain in few pages.
https://jmango360.com/wiki-pages-trends/mobile-app-vs-mobile-website-statistics/

Moreover, I'm managing few top alexa 10k websites for customers. Almost all of them have 70-85% percent of daily visitors either using smart phones or tablets. The number of visitors using desktops/laptops have 13-15% share of daily visits.

2. WordPress is both extraordinary? Well yes and no. It has somewhat flawed but has an unmatched community and plugin architecture. Seems as good a place as any to build the future. People already are…

In comparison to wordpress, there are quite a few databaseless CMS (less cpu, memory usage, no php engine, no database engine, pure html etc..) which are much better for ordinary day-to-day blogger's needs. The only thing that makes wordpress much better option to ordinary bloggers/website owners is having a huge theme and plugin developer community (paid or free). Themeforest or Codecanyon are as influential in wordpress's popularity rise as Matt who had coded the wordpress itself.

Wordpress is very ordinary. It's not extraordinary. I agree that it has an unmatched community and plugin architecture. However, with the forced introduction of Gutenberg Plugin to the core I think its no different than Saddam's Iraq or Putin's Russia. There are a handful of people deciding the future of the whole platform for millions of users. According to the Venturebeat's 2018 statement, Wordpress powers 30% of the web. The introduction of Gutenberg Plugin to the core was decided by less than 100 developers/contributors under the vision of "democratizing the web". Half of them are one way or another affiliated with automattic or 2 other companies (i don't remember the exact names of the companies). There is a clear conflict of interest. Kim Jong-Un's North Korea is more democratic in comparison the way wordpress.org is run if you take those statistics into account (100 or let's say 1000 contributors deciding what the 30% of the websites on internet should use).

Even the motto of "democratizing" the web is conflicting with the actual introduction of Gutenberg plugin to the wordpress core. People would be installing the Gutenberg plugin on their websites if it was useful to them. The best option to democratize the web is to share the simple core where people could add or remove functions by using plug-ins. I have yet to hear anyone talking about the number of downloads the Classic Editor has on wordpress.org and discuss why the stats are so high (5million+ and counting). It has to be noted that the Classic Editor was introduced after the addition of gutenberg to the core. At the moment, it's on par with the most popular plugins in the repository if you check the number of downloads.

What I'm trying to say is that => "Seems as good a place as any to build the future. People already are…" is an overstatement.

I hope I'm wrong but I've grown up in a "third world country" and I've seen my share of "visionaries", "leaders" and "prophets". These days the wordpress is shaped by Matt's "vision" of the future and I'm quite disturbed by this. I don't know him personally and I haven't had a chance to talk to him. However, I believe that he is a good fella. But as a good man he should stop forcing his vision to shape the future of whole community. I think the wordpress community owes to honor him but nobody deserves constant "thanks" for their contribution. We don't thank, revere, congratulate or mention Indians/Arabs for the current numerical system we use each time we type 1,0,4 or 5. We don't thank, revere, or even know the identities of the first Englishmen and Englishwomen who came up with the English language that enables you and me to have conversation today. Likewise, the same logic applies to Bitcoin, p2p, linux and so on so forth. The founders/creators of paid or open source software deserve credit but nothing more or nothing less. Let the people who use them to shape the software. This is my critique (from social point of view) of the unhealthy environment and state that the wordpress community has come to.

From the software perspective. I believe, the wordpress developers and contributors should focus mainly on database structure than anything else. It is flawed and you can go through the critiques of this issue by well-known dba's after a simple google search.

3. Any VR system will need a standardised way of navigating and a HTML like language delivered via the browser seems as good a way as any it will need to be organised. Path dependence is a thing and single vendor solutions will never become a standard.

Can you imagine something similar to Google Play/Apple Store to install apps on ur VR headset? Can you imagine having a much bigger, single repository for every public app ever made for VR being accessible to you after a Virtual Click away? If so then browser will be outdated.