virtual reality suits, continued...contacts or headset glasses?

Also from the first book of Sharon of Two Salems, on page 102:

"You’ll want to do your face last because as soon as the face part is activated, you’ll be looking out through the robotic form’s eyes, and that will line up your eardrums at the same time for sound.”

Sharon is being instructed how to put on the virtual reality suit, which in this case consists of invisible force fields. Since this is the first time she's put it on, they've tinted the VR suit a transparent purple to make it easier for her to put it on. What she sees is a mold of her own body, except she's looking at the inside of it. 

Once her eyes touch the eyeball shapes of the form, it as if she's put contacts on and she sees only the visual information coming through the suit...the visuals also correspond to which direction she looks. 

So, again, we have to take a step back because we're nowhere near developing a force field that can transmit information from another environment, much less even one that can protect someone from shock waves (see this Wired Magazine article, "That Boeing Force Field? It Probably Won’t Ever Work"). Let's look at where the VISUALS for virtual reality suits actually are at this point, though:

1. From the website for Manufacturing Global: "...Smart contact lenses may do a lot more interesting things down the road, and Google has been researching the capabilities for quite some time. Now it has a new patent related to making them." (The patent describes the micro-architecture of the proposed lenses, but doesn't explain what each thing does.)
2. Virtual reality glasses, or headsets, have been out for a longer time, and have come a long way from the early models. See "Why Samsung’s Gear VR is a virtual reality game-changer." From the article: "You’d think they had just discovered electricity or an alternative universe. In some ways, they had. The teens jumped around, yelped with excitement, and didn’t want to stop playing a few basic flight games and watching movies in the virtual reality theater."                                                 
                                              
   An attendee tries an Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR headset during the French telecom Orange annual company's innovations show in Paris Oct. 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Charles Platiau)
    
3. And, of course, Google Glass has been mentioned in a previous post. The difference between previous prototypes of Google Glass and Google's contact lenses in #1, above, may in fact be that the contacts will still be designed to see THROUGH, with information superimposed in the wearer's field of vision. But what will stop Google from adding a feature where the contacts become opaque, and the wearer is seeing only the virtual reality set he or she is interacting with?