Your comment about waifus and other animated characters is right on the money.

I don't think enough people have seriously considered how dramatically society will change when there's virtual reality that has 2D art with 3D movements (and it doesn't even have to be full dive right away for such technology to change everything overnight).

Consider how many people (including myself) obsesse over anime, and then imagine those same people having access to VR that allows for experiences that puts them into the anime, resulting in a lot of people spending the overwhelming majority of their time immersed in different stylized environments instead of the single boring enviroment of our present reality.