Metaverse as depicted in fantasy media just isn't happening (at least not any time in the foreseeable future for it to seem doable as things stand), we'll just get self contained completely separate per corporate entity that handles them worlds, networks & services as everyone wants a piece of the pie within their own ecosystem and really only uses the term metaverse because it's trending (or in a diff sense, it's already been here, i.e., the web and all you can do with it and how long people spend on it, from fb and insta and tiktok to calls and games or whatever else, adding an XR interface to do largely the same things, social or not, won't change the gist - you already got non-metaverse gaming wanting in on NFT, make money by playing, crypto etc. pyramid schemes, if money for virtual goods and services is really an important ingredient of the metaverse for some). So either way, Facebook made the term trend even though they got literally nothing to show for it (yet already making ads) and people are abusing it for all sorts of things, like the guy in the article above calling his crappy graphical MUD a metaverse, might as well call every MMO, GAAS or RecRoom/VRChat/Neos/Roblox thing (all MS/FB etc. show so far) a metaverse.
