Presumably it’s his wife who decides whether it is ok.

Agreed, although there is a societal acceptance factor as well.

It is currently the norm to use beautifying filters on basically any picture or video you post to the internet, for a large part of the population.

I can see a future where the iOS feature they just demoed that lets you choose what shows up on someone’s phone when they call you turns into choosing what filter(s) someone’s Apple Vision Pro Air Max Plus Ultra uses when it sees you.

Is an MR headset an improvement over a paper bag?

Why not get rid of their spouse altogether if they prefer the MR version? Sounds like they didn't really want a relationship in the first place.

> what if he keeps it a secret from his wife

I don't think you can keep that level of non-attraction a secret for very long.

It's funny, there's a game called Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages with an Alien species that cranked this concept to 11 to the point they were attempting to engineer a pathogen to cause other species to develop a particular gland that would render that species able to interact with them by way of psionic avatar.

The species was pictured as comically horrifying and ugly, but amongst themselves with a generous dose of handwavium, the gland basically normalized sensory experience of one another amongst the species.

http://ringrunner.net/

Cute and fun game, all told. A family work as I understand it. Always wished they'd have continued writing on it.