When I was trying towards being an airline pilot it was said that the job is 99% boredom followed by 1% of sheer terror. Being a firefighter or your job sounds similar, with the hope of boring shifts, but the understanding when expertise is needed it must be available. The boredom aspect didn’t work with my brain so I deal with computers these days.

I don’t know much about card tricks, just that many appear to use non-random cuts and those ABAB shuffles to get cards where they need to go. This one ‘The Hotel’ might even be easy enough for me to learn:

https://youtu.be/P-6gCH1hRGs

No this was from a painting, back when they only had black and white paint

With no controllers made by Apple, it seems VR gaming wasn’t an intended use either as devs aren’t going to port games if most users don’t have them. Which only leaves people who will pay that price for a glorified external monitor.