I wonder when it would be that I or my family elders would be online in a metaverse. Do you hop on during lunch time at work? Would you need the VR helmet thing

I wonder when it would be that I or my family elders would be online in a metaverse. Do you hop on during lunch time at work? Would you need the VR helmet thing? Or would there be some sort of text timeline showing what metamates are up to? Would people without powerful enough phones be outright excluded? If I'm setting up an ad campaign on the metaverse, do I have to "virtually physically" walk my avatar to some office in the metaverse to talk to an ad rep? If I have neck problems will this make it worse? Will it affect my eyesight? I can imagine a Discord-type of world, basically Second Life without the game mechanics. Could I have my Pikachu follow me around? What about an avatar of my real dog? This stuff exists already though. So the value add is that I feel more immersed, while simultaneously being more disconnected from the flow of my everyday life? It's already rude to get on your phone when you have company, how much worse is it if you have to don a headset or something to take a call? Anyways, I'm 30 and it all sounds lame to me. I don't play video games. I didn't even get the Pokemon Go thing when everyone my age got obsessed. Maybe I'm just too literal minded. I guess I'll focus on buying real stuff with the real money I make by making virtual stuff for the metaverse.