If the VR is good enough, why would you even bother to visit it in real life?

I mean, that's true today. I'm sure you've seen plenty of shops egregiously misrepresenting the sizes of products via forced perspective or outright editing in images. If they were to upload a 3D model it would only get more difficult to mislead about the physical characteristics of the product.

But then you need something like Nano instead of Bitcoin, which has 0 fees. Ideal for such micro transactions.

This is implemented in the Brave browser.

I'm not sure something that actively incentivises writers blather on endlessly, bury the lede, split their content over dozens of pages, slightly raising the price knowing that people will become densensitised to reading your per page costs, lock final review scores behind more expensive paywalls than the lower priced intro pages, and who knows what other dark patterns will be invented all while forcing me to make a determination every fifteen seconds on "is this worth the price they just asked?" is supposed to be a cool thing.

If you thought recipe articles were terrible today, just wait until you have to pay 0.01 for their life story and then 0.03 for the ingredients only to discover that it will cost you another 0.15 for the actual instructions.

Micropayments existed long before bitcoin and adding a blockchain mostly just makes them more awkward.

Crypto in general yes, but the lightning network specifically no. It's utterly impractical for most users, unless you use a third party hosted wallet, in which case almost all the benefits of crypto, like anti-lock-in and jurisdiction-agnoticism, go away.

Crypto-powered micropayments could potentially massively boost revenue for content creators, including socially valuable platforms such as news sites.

Bitcoin has a throughput of 1 KB/s for the entire world, so it will never be used for micro transactions.

Yes, it'll be used for workplace monitoring to generate easy to measure and rank KPIs for review time.

Research indicates the ideal reading speed for corporate PR emails is 40 wpm and your teamwork KPI at review time will be stack ranked based on how close you move your eyes to the ideal 40 wpm reading rate.