In the future, you won't just have to watch an overly long video or scroll three quarters of the way down a story to find a recipe, you'll have to travel through portals to different worlds!
There seems like such an assumption that everybody is aching to decorate new spaces and show off for its own purpose. How often do you visit a space just to check out the space, versus to do something in it? And that's especially true when pushed now by companies thinking it's monetizable, where now you've lost the benefit of not being constrained by real estate and physical material prices. So you've got advantages over video calls for keeping up with people far away, but what else?