I have two Chromebooks and they are real laptops. Here are the companies making Chromebooks & Chrome Boxes: Acer, Samsung, HP, Lenovo, and now Google Pixel.
I was on the Pilot program two years ago and Chrome OS has come a long way since then and the Cloud is the future of computing. I used to use Secondlife and recently signed up again with a new username. I hope someone out there that knows programming and makes a viewer that can run within the Chrome Browser that also can run on Chrome OS or makes an App that accomplishes this.