I think the biggest disconnect between the vision and the reality of the metaverse is that the vision includes a “locality” that does not exist on the internet.

I think the biggest disconnect between the vision and the reality of the metaverse is that the vision includes a “locality” that does not exist on the internet. There might be interesting reasons to simulate distance in the metaverse that correspond to real world phenomena like latency. Probably not IMO but who knows. But “traveling” in the metaverse has always been a dumb idea; what’s the point? Anyplace you want to go is at most seconds away; the idea of “moving” to get there doesn’t add any value.