Does Vertical Take Off and Landing Have a Real Future?

Just like everything else, it's a compromise.

You sacrifice air speed for VTOL capabilities.

They are great for rough terrain work.

It worked OK during the Apollo missions, Uncle.

At $100,000,000.00 USD (give or take) per landing/take-off, I'd say that's a little pricey.

Relative to the Osprey type tilt rotor, a commercial version has not been produced as of this date. The thing is to damn complicated (IMO), with 5 transmissions. The problem is there are 2 markets, remote oil rig and search rescue. And the cost of a commercial airframe is 3x what the market will pay. The company I retired from started the program ~ 1996, it was Bell-Agusta (BA609), which morphed to Bell-Boeing (BB609), now AgustaWestland (AW609). It requires an active flight control system for stability. I don't have clue if they've gotten the price tag to a level that will sell enough airframes to recover what now must be an enormous non-recurring development cost to amortize.

AW609

The video link of the Boeing unit is not for passenger use, but drone application. More amazing how they prototyped it so fast.

if they ever catch on I highly doubt the twin rotor of an osprey will be integral to the design.....basically a crash looking for a place to happen

Scale it up a bit, put in seats and controls, allow the wings to fold up for taxiing and storage, and I've got the air car I've wanted. Mass produced, of course, to make it affordable.