(I) you don't need those crowds to have a high value product. Vast majority of people don't own a games console or a gambling account or buy many books either.

(I) you don't need those crowds to have a high value product. Vast majority of people don't own a games console or a gambling account or buy many books either. (II) many of the same people that don't bother turning on webcam at work meetings do care about it when talking to their family or spend hours immersed in MMORPGs or exploring other people's world's through video and being seen to follow all the right trends on social media. Sure, mainstream VR has been "just around the corner" since before the average person had access to the internet and I think there are still technical and fashion questions about how mass market-ready the tech is and whether Meta is remotely the right company to market its Android, but if we judged the long term potential of a tech by people's enthusiasm for being observed by their boss even the internet would have been written off...