In the short term, I think the Metaverse is unlikely. But in the long term, it's a bet that affluent consumers are going to spend more and more time at home rather than out in the world where A/R use would be dangerous and alienating. This seems like a pretty reasonable bet.
https://twitter.com/hblodget/status/1459126370332721173
And the fact that it hasn't shown up, 30 years after Stephenson described it ... well, Robert Heinlein predicted ubiquitous cell phones in 1948. When I graduated college in 1995, this still seemed like a pipe dream. Yet check your pockets.
Maybe V/R will never really take off because of the nausea problems. But maybe kids will embrace it first, as with all new tech, and eventually we fogies will either die off or belatedly climb on board the virtual train. I wouldn't dare try to predict from my own preferences.
I will say that even five years ago I would not have thought that my 77 year old mother, a broad-spectrum technophobe, would be texting and playing scrabble on her phone.
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