Doesn't internet+oAuth+ecosystem essentially cover the metaverse concept already or am I missing the big picture? > The metaverse will be persistent That's al

Doesn't internet+oAuth+ecosystem essentially cover the metaverse concept already or am I missing the big picture? > The metaverse will be persistent That's already the case. Your email, facebook posts, photos, game history, chats, etc are already persistent. MMOs are not at all "the closest thing" to this existing. > The metaverse will be live The internet is both live (e.g. twitch) and async (e.g. email) depending on what you're consuming. What is new here? > Experiences will span both digital and physical worlds This seems kind of how a lot of things already work, though I can see that VR can push this forward in some respects. > There will be no cap on concurrent users Except when there are technical or product reasons right? Pretty much as things are now. > The metaverse will have a fully functioning economy I guess this could be improved. General purpose digital trading marketplaces aren't big or general purpose; but that might also be good - centralized markets could take too much profit from the ecosystem. > The metaverse will have unprecedented interoperability This is a pretty generic statement, even with the example of fortnite skins being usable in minecraft. oAuth already allows for sharing access to data between different providers. It's a question of the product developers from both sides wanting to create the available interop. Maybe there will be easy to use libraries that handle more specialized cases in the future but what is _new_ here to require a new name? I still have no idea what the Metaverse is and the "is it already here" section doesn't really explain what is missing. It's just vague concepts thrown into a soup trying to sound cool and I can't find any substance in what is being said. Can someone clarify this Metaverse concept?