Businesswoman portrait in vr glasses headset, cyber world and digital data. Metaverse, blockchain technology. Concept of future and alternate reality. Credit: denisismagilov/Adobe Stock Virtual reality therapy helped 69% of injured workers in a study either decrease opioid use or drop them completely, according to Harvard Medtech. (Credit: denisismagilov/Adobe Stock)

Virtual reality has long been touted as the next big thing in video gaming and social networking, but the history of VR is littered with ideas that failed to gain traction from Nintendo's crimson-everything Virtual Boy console to the reportedly abrupt end to Meta's namesake Metaverse project.

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