Examples of the metaverse are silly and childlike, and people aren’t using it. Meta is falling short of projections for their version, called Horizon Worlds. Most “worlds” get no visitors.
The appeal of the concept is the ability to interact with a virtual world, but to make that happen would require a full-body suit that could monitor all your movements and provide tactile feedback. It’s a cool concept, but it’s horribly impractical. [A long time ago I wrote a sci-fi novel that played with this concept.]
You can meet and talk to people in the metaverse, but you can’t see facial expressions or read body language. It’s not an improvement on a regular zoom meeting.
There will be some applications where it makes sense, but it’s not taking over.
The concept is premature, at best. We don’t have the tech yet to make it much more than a silly game, and when you create a place where people can do “whatever they want,” it’s easy to predict where that will go.
Avoid the metaverse hype and keep your eye on augmented reality.
