People imagine Matrix/Ready Player One but it's just not gonna happen, no company will provide the ultimate digital product that can do basically anything so everyone will want to join. We'll end up calling metaverse everything we do online/digitally in separate apps, games, services, whether for entertainment or professionally, etc., like Web 3 or whatever. But sure, some folks will still be scammed by some Second Life VR crap that will also be numerous, each with its own community, NFTs, land masses to buy and be all around a shit product, shit service, made to money grab, but those into it will always pimp it as the best thing ever in much the same way. Noone called Second Life or even some super popular MMORPGs that did seem to offer enough of a fantasy life for some to get lost in a metaverse but nowadays everyone making anything that has some online capability and customisability calls their crap it. Hell, Facebook that made it trendy to call such stuff metaverse have only shown some rudimentary RecRoom knock off that is even less fun and capable (never mind stuff like VRChat) and is still segmented between Home, Worlds and Workgroups apps!
Not to mention so many companies trying their hand at it don't even attempt to make something compelling, a utopia if you will, but rather convert all the worst aspects of the real world into the digital where they could be aleviated, like scarcity of products, classes, etc., just for money. And some somehow get excited for that, because slaving away in and/or for one life isn't enough, you gotta to it in/for two. Anyway, it's just marketing at this point, started by Facebook taking the Meta name on and claiming to work towards that and maintained by the scammer crypto blockchain NFT bros.
