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Depending on his mood, Jeff Weiser settles down to work in a Parisian cafe, a mysterious cave or high above the Earth, thanks to the budding metaverse. Weiser lives in the midwestern US state of Ohio but his workplace is in a faux realm accessed using virtual reality head gear. While still the stuff of science fiction for most people, forerunners of the metaverse vision for the internet’s future are already de rigueur for handfuls of people beyond the gamer and techno-hipster crowds. Weiser, founder of a translation start-up, spends 25 to 35 hours each week working with Oculus VR gear on his h…