So the thing I'm coming to appreciate more as the years go on and the technology advances is to stop trying to predict a time frame and start looking at things from a milestone perspective. A true full dive virtual reality set would require a lot of different technologies in a lot of different fields of scientific study that advance at a lot of different rates. We could get lucky and all of them could advance fast enough to make 5 years possible, or maybe one field of study lags behind and we remain 90% there for 20 years. There's no way to really know.

I'm waiting for more concrete advancements in reading and understanding the signals of the connectome as a whole. Then providing input stimulus to the brain. After that it mostly comes down to a safety and reliability concern for me. I won't be the first person to do a full dive, but I definitely won't be the last either.