By asking this question, you're essentially making a huge assumption. Firstly, Do humans drive to work to only connect their senses? When you say we "primarily drive to connect our senses anyways", you're diluting the purpose of the entire exercise of "working" to "connecting our senses". Which is false.
Consider the profession of driving. There will always be a need for "drivers", not just humans, for transporting goods, services etc. Is driving an exercise of just connecting our senses? No. It also involves performing actions based on inputs from these senses. Why would anyone want to create VR based drivers? It makes no sense, because self driving cars are already possible. Self driving cars have already won the competition in this case. This is the one scenario where VR and self driving cars compete.
Now consider the profession of software development. Here, let's say VR made it such that you wouldn't have a need to drive to work. Then, you wouldn't drive to work, but you'd still need to get places - for which a car (maybe self driving) is still required. In this case, again, self driving cars and VR are not competing. One has made removed the need for the other for a very specific purpose. This is not competition.
I think your question is asked with a very narrow minded view of "working". You're probably a software engineer. AMIRITE?
