Opinion: Forget the metaverse. For US$3,500, Apple offers a new way to be alone

Apple's pitch? This may be virtual reality, but it's anything but the metaverse. This is brand new technology for you, the consumer, to be enjoyed inside Apple's famous walled garden. — Bloomberg

Remember the metaverse? No? Well, you're not alone.

It seems but a faint memory now, but before AI mania swept Silicon Valley, the concept that everyone would soon be strapping on headsets and logging on to an "embodied Internet" to do conference calls and standup comedy was centrestage in the tech world — thrust there by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.