Recently my son (8) was talking about how cool his uncles vr headset is and made the leap to what if that was in your brain! I was impressed he made that connection. Then I reminded him how all the games on his iPad forced him to watch ads, wouldn’t that be a similar situation, only in his brain? His eyes got wide then he got a disgusted look on his face. He agreed that would suck.
I personally think there have always been distractions, maybe what’s different now is how some people get positive validation from their social media interactions, certainly an author would. A lot of people don’t though.
I hate to be that person but I must point out that there are studies that show that children less than 10 years old using VR can have impaired head-trunk coordination. See this study for more info: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96866-8
Thanks for the link, I think modern VR's paint is still fresh in everyone's mind (well... mine at least) and you brought a scientific article. I'm now wondering if the effects could be made beneficial for physical therapy.
If you install and adblocking app on the iPad, your son can see fewer ads (e.g. AdGuard, AdBlock) on these games. Alternatively, you could set up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi to block ads across the network.
This isn't something you need to explain to people here. It's like responding to someone's comment about unpleasant weather by suggesting that they could wear different clothes.
I personally think there have always been distractions, maybe what’s different now is how some people get positive validation from their social media interactions, certainly an author would. A lot of people don’t though.