So much of our reasoning is abstract and removed from immediate physical reality, and VR alone may very well prove to be a powerful tool for understanding, reasoning, and conceptualizing these things. Even when I'm designing physical things there often isn't a real-world context to relate them to, yet. That is-- the jury is out on how much augmented reality is necessary to be "useful" versus immersion/"escapism".

And even seemingly escapist things can be great for increasing intuition or our strengths in reasoning about things... witness Kerbal Space Program or Poly Bridge.