I'm a skeptic. For a preview of this, try using a retina MacBook at full resolution with a pair of $10 jewelers glasses.
Personally I found it super slow and frustrating to have to turn my head instead of my eyes to see different parts of the screen - it's nothing like using multiple physical monitors. And jewelers glasses are better than virtual screens will be - they have zero lag and don't suffer from the double-aliasing of projecting one pixel grid onto another pixel grid.
I can imagine this working, but it would take way more resolution and field of view to simulate multiple monitors than anything we know how to build today.
Personally I found it super slow and frustrating to have to turn my head instead of my eyes to see different parts of the screen - it's nothing like using multiple physical monitors. And jewelers glasses are better than virtual screens will be - they have zero lag and don't suffer from the double-aliasing of projecting one pixel grid onto another pixel grid.
I can imagine this working, but it would take way more resolution and field of view to simulate multiple monitors than anything we know how to build today.