Most of the trend today is relayed on the world of NFT so there's an instance or chance might be they will adopt this kind of a trend right now afaik there's a thread too related to the Gambling and metaverse and also the virtual reality due to pandemic many people now are would like to entertain with this trends its the new meta of the gambling industry well looking forward on it lets see.
All those you stated are currently just a "trend" and a "hype". Whenever a trend and hype goes away, everything slowly dies with them. I don't think "big industries" would make a move based on hype. It would be huge risk. But metaverse might become a thing since Meta (facebook) is trying to lead their way into it. But I don't think it is going anytime soon. The whole augment and virtual reality thing is still on the development stage and is far from perfect. And the pandemic won't stay forever. Once everything gets back to complete normal, highly likely people will forget about the virtual life.
I could also say that this current pandemic situation did really put us up on a condition on where most people now are focused on digital world and thats what put up some emphasis on developing things which is attached
to it which i could say also that once we do go back to normal then less interest would really be putting on it once again but for now they hype and attention is really into this part which i couldnt really blame them off.
Hype and trend would die away and only potential ones or does have real use case would really remain and this is where smart investors/companies would really be that considerate.
When we back to normal conditions, people will still focus on the digital because they get something new than what they get in real life.
They can still use the old ways but they also use the new way to interact with the digital more often than before.
This pandemic brings a new situation to people and it supports by technology that can give them a new way to interact.
The gambling industry will give more ways for people to gamble because they can gamble in any place. If they are still at home, they can use their gadgets to visit the casinos and play gambling right away without anyone knowing.
It is what the companies can catch to serve those people to use them all of their days.
With more technology involved in our life, it can reduce our ways to socialize with others because we can use the technology to get them close to us.