If It Ain't Boeing, I Ain't Going

Airbus has filed a patent application for a virtual reality cockpit.

If a better rendition of this is released, somebody needs to overlay a Blue Screen of Death on the display, like this:

There may be a tricky issue about what known in the patent business as "prior art". This one of the renditions of Airbus's cockpit:

Looks kind of familiar to me:

And if Boeing adopts the same thing, I'll drive or take the train. For if the cockpit is "virtual", what prevents it from being remotely controlled, like a drone?