content: I am in this camp as well.  It's a useless debate, the technologies are very complementary. I'm not sure VR->AR will ever work out that well though as cameras introduce latency and would reduce resolution of something you can get full for free. An AR headset that can fully obscure the real world on demand is where we are headed IMO. Then you can augment a door to a holodeck you can walk into and be in VR (in your AR capable headset) The state of the art AR headset (Hololense) has a field of view that has been described as postage stamp sized, so it's not surprising that people are having trouble grasping this concept yet.