Is that a serious argument? PCs offered tremendous utility over phones and letters. What utility does VR provide over a regular PC? Oh that’s right, virtually none.
Remember, it wasn't networked, and the I/O was limited to a crappy matrix printer at best. There was practically no software, and most professionals and managers didn't know how to type since that was a secretary's task.
Also the comparison to early computers a little weird. VR isn't a platform that can scale out to to handle billions of e-commerce transactions or solve computational biology problems. Apples to oranges.