The problem is to apply VR equipment massively, the cost will be too high and hard to realize it I think.
AR should become an alternative way for VR. Remember that so many devices right now already supported AR. that's why some metaverse companies are preferring to take AR rather thN VR to be used in their metaverse. You can see how PYR was developing AR battle rather than VR. The main purpose of metavers to create a virtual world that used real economic system as a part of its world to build a sustainable virtual world that anyone can doing almost the same thing like what they are doing in the real world related to the financial activities.
VR was not the only answer and it the developers are feeling hard to use it and there was AR as the alternative solution for that.
OP, i guess any of these materverse projects are also working on their own metaverse chains.