I would argue that trying to force VR on consumers by over-promising it before it has a 'killer-app' is harmful to VR as a technology, and I think that VR is a potentially very important technology. However I can't argue against the Zuck giving Carmack 20 billion dollars to build awesome and affordable toys that I love using, especially when it has the potential to scare off his stockholders and make him even more of a laughing stock. I say it is a wash.

You change the environment where people to some extent live their lives. Stripmalls never hurt anyone either by that token.

People change the environment themselves by choosing that over the alternative. If you don't like the thing that other people chose that's a fair opinion to have, but it's hard to argue that harm was caused by it.

That's incredibly reductive.

It only harms people if people choose it.

Just look at all the harm caused by the game SecondLife. Oh wait, it hasn't really caused much, if any, because it's not exactly popular.

I predict their VR social network will be even less popular.