What we are being sold as 'metaverse' is not metaverse, let's start the conversation there. Even without Facebook being part of this, we're already starting off

What we are being sold as 'metaverse' is not metaverse, let's start the conversation there. Even without Facebook being part of this, we're already starting off on the wrong foot. Everything that I've seen promoting 'metaverse' is indistinguishable for everything I've seen promoting VR. - Is it VR ... but with ads? We have that. - Is it VR ... but with personal avatars in simulated space? We have that. - Is it VR ... but in a space funded by a company that 'wont cancel this experiment when the clicks die down?' We have that. None of this is attractive aside from those who already embrace VR. Out of those, you have a myriad of disparate hardware that for the most part isn't-quite-there-yet. Surely someone will jump in and tell me that their Virtuo X3 works perfectly with their AMD Nitro Quantum 32gb, but that's not common, it's not approachable lingo, and it doesn't have a crowd of people who also share the same experience waiting for you when you join. Unfortunately we will never see a true metaverse the way Hiro Protagonist saw it, and when we do it will be lenses that pipe sales ads into our eyes and track retinal stats to enrich our spam as we walk through IKEA. The 'metaverse' being peddled at us, in its current form, is a farce.