The thing about reality is that it’s brutally mundane. The hurtling inexorability of human existence and relentlessness of societal routine is enough to fill even those with the most fulfilling lives with a foreboding sense of existential dread. It’s little surprise then that escapist cravings often pervade all of our minds. Taking a break from our personal realities to experience something vastly beyond our norms is top of the free-time agenda for many, and the idea of the metaverse lends it...