I’m sorry, but do you just talk to strangers on the subway?

I very often greet people, say polite things, perhaps engage in some light conversation with strangers. It's quite human to have these social interactions.

We already have smartphones that everyone is looking at anyway.

Yes, which is already bad enough. Why make it worse by having them on our faces?

Before that we had newspapers.

True, but newspapers didn't take people out of the environment they were in - it was simply an object within that environment in which people were still fully able to interact with the outside world uninhibited.

These headsets are designed to remove you from reality, while you are still in it. =

You are making up an imaginary dystopia to peddle fear for no reason.

Nah, I just see where corporate interests are trying to move society, and I'm concerned about the negative impacts it will have.

Old people usually strike a conversation.