metaverse predictions seem to center around several main themes:

1. 3d headset/3d virtual spaces
2. NFT drops and subsequent gaming universes
3. Fortnite/Minecraft/existing play universes
4. “the Internet we have is the metaverse”

other directional ideas outside these 4?

I like to play with new stuff. dksf.twitter

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

so more of an AR vision for the metaverse concept?

Not all the spaces are purely virtual. Many are and will be mixed with physical reality.

Yea, 0xPARC has a focus area called "Autonomous Worlds" pursuing a different vision, where each "world" is a blockchain (a rollup) and "transactions" are manifested in the world via a set of "digital physics." It's really cool shit, imo.