A person's interactions with the world are not "consumption experiences." This sort of VR future would turn humanity into ghosts -- haunting a virtual world, unable to truly inhabit it or exercise any degree of agency over it.
At the same time, the person in VR would be giving learnable information to the robot while they are controlling it (e.g. like a driver for a self-driving car). Eventually, you could wade the robot off of VR and it would be able to carry out the task. So, VR could also be a way to teach robots.