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movies we watch. When Tony Stark slipped on his Iron Man helmet to “see” a different world and then added his cool fighting, flying suit, creative entrepreneurs saw opportunities to put various aspects of his adventures into products ordinary folks could use. More importantly, hard-nosed business people envisioned how the entertainment technology could blend into people’s everyday life and activities. We’ll begrudgingly admit that there may be a place for this Metaverse stuff. Ultimately, there will be an infinite number of digital worlds we’ll live/work in that will be connected by AI, VR, AR, MR. Right now, it’s still a bunch of nice products/services and it’s up to technology standards groups to set the ground rules to keep it open and available to everyone. It’s still going to take time and effort to make the ideas and initiatives to work smoothly, seamlessly together. There will be some who heed Kevin Flynn’s advise in Tron when he said, “The only way to win the game is not to play.” But … what’s the fun in that?