Virtual reality is in a bit of a weird place right now. After a lot of unfulfilled promise in the 1990s, it came back strong with the 2016 release of the Oculus Rift . For a while, it looked like VR, AR, XR, the metaverse, or whatever you wanted to call it, was going to be huge. Mark Zuckerberg was certainly convinced , and even Apple got in on the hype with its Vision Pro . But by then momentum for alternate realities of every acronym was already in steady decline, and it only dwindled from...