Meta-Perceptual Helmets

FWIW, I tried this as a student, and in a couple of hours was biking campus paths. Decades ago, but my very fuzzy recollection is the key adaptation was sort of ignoring the oddity and going with familiar behaviors. So reaching to grab an object would "just work", unless I "thought about it" - then the hand would feedback the wrong way, followed by a "stop thinking!" and recovery after the bobble, or by a freeze and trying again. IIRC, it had a similar feel to doing things while viewing myself in a mirror. Meh - I set it aside after a day or so. But YMMV - different brains deal with the world very differently. I can run on spatial/kinesthetic with only spotchecks from vision, so perhaps this was merely tweaking that role. Might be interesting to try learning an unfamiliar physical task while inverted, and watch transfer in the other direction.

Watching someone else's VR view on a TV isn't too bad.

There is not other outcome to any of this but catastrophe one way or another. You can live high in the hog for some time, living off what others have created and built up over years and generations, e.g., grandmas savings, but that will invariably run out one way or another. Maybe you will be able to roll the consequences of that mentality on others or your children, but the bill will come due one day, and that day could be coming soon or not, but it is coming with ever greater certainty that there has been no correction in a long while.

That said, I suppose you could train your camera at Polaris and depending on your latitude (the northern the better, but don't go so far that you lose nights) you'll have a consistent circle around 90-Lat degrees wide. A bit less due to axial tilt, but I'm not exactly sure how much.

Beauty is subjective.

Good art is not necessarily beautiful. I suspect there's more interesting potential for art/tech collaboration not in the beautiful parts, but in the ability to create something thought provoking.

Would I rather have a ugly product, that I could repair----hell yes.

I thought some of Palm products back in the day were beautiful. I loved my Palm TX. I loved the look, and feel of the product.