okay fr tho VR headsets could be a good plot device for a Mystery story in a modern-day cyberpunk setting (even the millennium books)

like the protagonists are searching for someone they know uses a certain moderately-sized social VR app, but they don't know their username, so they have to sit there all day talking to people trying to deduce who their target is

THAT could be a good way to shoehorn a reference to VR in but still weave it into the narrative