There's already people kinda living like this. Fentanyl is abused because of the intense euphoria the users experience. As tech improves the downsides will go away and the highs will get even more powerful.

You can still hitch a ride on a pearling lugger to the horizontal falls and shoot them with a homemade sea kayak in real life .. and as yet there's no VR / AR plugin for that in the digital world - at least not one with real whirlpool stoppers, salt water crocodiles, and warm equatorial water sharks.