The interesting thing is that it is NOT brute forcing the game. Rather it is learning which moves get it positive results in which situations to develop a strategy to win, much like a human would.

Deep Blue was like that, but this AI is not brute forcing the game. It is trying many different moves and remembering which ones worked in which situations to develop effective strategies, much like a human would

They could easily just have a chapter break at each disk swap...

VR is full immersion, things like hololens are Augmented Reality, or AR

halfway through Chapter 2 is 99% of the story content FYI

I mean it’s no different than sports being “competitive athletics”