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But these mass-market applications all have one thing in common:

They are games. What's more, most of them are rather simple games, and their only novelty is the IO device they were designed for.

This is a far far far cry from the supposed applications promised by the "metaverse" clamor as a place to do serious work and basically spend a substantial portion of our lives in.

Is it cool that I can put on a headset and hunt some robots in VR, aiming with my hands and dodging stuff by moving around? Absolutely! Is it cool that this is possible wo. being connected to a computer because the headset itself is so powerful? Undeniably!

Is it cool that these devices are becoming actually affordable for the masses, and easy&intuitive to use on top if that? Hell yeah!

But the technological & societal revolution that "metaverse" is presented as? Not by a long shot.