Coming from a trip without exiting home. 

It turns out that vacationing in the metaverse has its advantages.

I didn’t have to pack, find my passport, or rush to an airport, for starters.

I just put on Mark Zuckerberg’s increasingly popular virtual reality metaverse headgear, the Meta Quest 2.

I had installed and loaded a VR programme called Vacation Simulator in a matter of minutes.

It’s the follow-up to the hugely popular (and unexpectedly funny) Job Simulator.

The assumption is that we are living in a futuristic world when human jobs have been supplanted by robots.

So you may use the Job Simulator to see what it was like to work in an office or as a mechanic in the past.

Vacation Simulator is the logical next step: see how people in the past (i.e. today) spent their time while they weren’t working.

My vacation started at a hotel, where I was greeted by a floating robot who assisted me in orienting myself.

She led me into the bathroom, where I was allowed to straighten my hair, trim my goatee, and color my hair bleach blonde. It’s really nice.

Then, just like on a real vacation, I went directly to the hotel bed for a nap.

Because I was actually flat on the floor on my living room carpeting, the bed was quite big and comfortable

I stood up again to shoot some baskets in my virtual room, which had a basketball in it.