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The decline of commercial VR—marked by Apple's Vision Pro scaling back, slowing headset release cadence, and a return to niche DIY builds—mirrors the post-2021 deflation of the metaverse narrative. This is part of a larger capital rotation away from speculative 'future tech' themes (VR, metaverse, gaming tokens) toward hard, cash-flow-generating assets like AI infrastructure and Bitcoin, which now commands elevated dominance (BTC $81,882, 1.65T mcap).

A first-person account of building a DIY VR headset, noting the current decline in commercial VR development and the niche nature of DIY VR.

A DIY Headset Build Exposes VR's Slow Fade — and the Metaverse Tokens Still Priced for a Boom

DIY VR's open-source hardware ethos is quietly training a generation of crypto-native builders to treat physical devices as mineable, tokenizable nodes—preparing the ground for DePIN's next frontier: consumer hardware as yield-generating assets.