About a year ago, I wrote a series of articles exploring the potential benefits and drawbacks of Facebook The plans of the Metaverse of Meta. Somehow referring to it that way isn’t fair, because Oculus (which was bought by Facebook and became Meta) isn’t the only player in that field. Back then, a growing number of companies were involved, and now even more are going after the metaverse.

I don’t want to repeat the entire series of articles, but if you are TL; DR about a four-part series, the short version is that there are safety and environmental benefits that can come from reducing the need for transportation and keeping people out of dangerous situations. But, the cost of the hardware can get in the way and that’s assuming the metaverse is of high quality and not a cesspool of…