I find it odd that he described Ready Player One as "excellent", yet is excited about VR. Maybe he wasn't paying attention, but Ready Player One is in part a critique of VR. Notice that the real world has decayed quite a bit because of neglect; most everyone avoids the real world and escapes to the OASIS (the VR). And the book ends with the protagonist being happy enough that for the first time in as long as he can remember, he has no desire to log back into the VR.