Yeah that's totally what I expect, which is why I'm confused why the person I replied to seems to believe there'll be a single one. I know that the Web 3.0 Cry

Yeah that's totally what I expect, which is why I'm confused why the person I replied to seems to believe there'll be a single one. I know that the Web 3.0 Cryptocurrency crowd have ideas on the idea of a decentralized web with a shared ontological understanding, so maybe that's the source of the idea of there being a single metaverse? But neither Epic nor Meta seem interested in a shared ecosystem. The metaverse is a product and their implementations will compete. I'm not sure if people would even want to be in two separate metaverses so competition will be fierce. Most media (books/movie) sidestep that by usually having a single metaverse creator. That's in large part because it's narratively easier to deal with a single villain and universe. I don't know of any that posit having competing offerings.