Yes, while we indulge in such comfortable fantasies and need a lot of electricity to create concerts and other virtual experiences, we lose all reference to the physical foundations we need as living beings. To name just one aspect: The topsoil.
Soil does not develop quickly. It takes hundreds, sometimes thousands of years for the processes to become visible through the formation of soil horizons. It takes around 100 to 200 years for one centimetre of this highly complex and sensitive ecosystem to form.
Most soils here in Germany have developed since the last ice age, i.e. they are around 10,000 years old. The slowness of the soil formation processes makes the soil a quasi non-renewable and thus precious resource.
Our industrial food cultivation is a worldwide danger for the topsoil. But we prefer to look into the tubes and dream of holograms and other virtual alternative fantasies that don't make us think about what we should actually learn. We are organic beings, whether we like it or not. Thus we belong in the cycle of this earth and not outside of it.
Technological progress towards full virtual immersion is not the right way.
It may seem as if my answer has nothing to do with your article, but I think the interest in the physical realm may grow again and should counter the virtual one with something better. In truth it is fun to be in the more touched world. Much more than in the holographic world.