It’s hard to avoid chatter, not just within crypto circles, but even mainstream media, about NFT mania (which may be waning) and the metaverse. Yet what I hear from many people, especially amongst non-gamers, is that the future is not in the metaverse because the majority of the population don’t plan to buy VR headsets and spend their days shooting aliens in the virtual world. This binary thinking is rational given that the only image most people see of the metaverse is something that mostly ...