Upon one full week of hiking various deserts, yes, this is virtual reality, my friends, there is 'Dune, the desert-planet'. This video is in full-HD quality, so it might even appear acceptable on 4K-screens, in case anybody has one, sound-quality is also good, at high bitrate.
In my opinion science-fiction writers should rather read real scientific works than other science-fiction.
What is a 40-
mio.-dollars budget in the era of network-marketing? Nearly nothing at all, with this taken into account, the product is really impressive, with a strong nightmarish horror-quality, never bad.