If Mark Zuckerberg had his way, we’d all be making Zoom calls as 3D avatars through computers in our faces.

I recently got a taste of the newest and best experience in what Facebook’s co-founder calls the metaverse. It felt more like a meh-taverse.

Got a sneak peek at the Quest Pro headset, unveiled Tuesday by Meta as the culmination of billions in hardware development. Most people will likely never own a Quest Pro headset, in part because it sells for $1,499.99, almost four times the cost of its predecessor. But more than seven years after it introduced its first Oculus virtual reality platform, its next-generation headsets leave us pondering a big question for the future of everyone’s use of personal technology: when might the metaverse… .