The Internet is not the metaverse. The Internet is primarily a distribution system for static documents, with extensions for interactive document exchange (most

The Internet is not the metaverse. The Internet is primarily a distribution system for static documents, with extensions for interactive document exchange (most websites), and support for other media - music, video, etc. Key point - the other media are not interactive. You can select your experience, but you can't change it. This is because of content ownership traditions, not because of the technology. In other words, the Internet is a kind of automated bureaucracy. It has ads and clicky clicky things that pop up, but when you're buying a flight or shopping from a catalog or writing emails you're still doing something that would have involved paper or possibly people, but on a screen. Usually with lots of text. Which you're either reading or writing. The transaction friction has been lowered, and transactions that used to be local are now global (and sometimes vice versa). But the type of transaction hasn't changed. You're still selecting, ordering, buying, selling, communicating. This OP's vision of the Metaverse seems to be one where you start from this, but you're forced to follow the documents and become part of the bureaucracy. Does it reduce friction? No, it increases it. Does it change the nature of the transactions? Not particularly. The idea is still to do the same things, but somehow the VR version is "better." Well - more pixel area might certainly help in some situations. But balancing that against the permanent impression that you have become an animated emoji trapped forever in a corporate work space is - I think - going to be a very tough sell. Second Life turned into an absolute shit show, with virtual porn, virtual gambling, and virtual rent seeking everywhere, because the fundamental truth is that this is what interests a lot of the population. I can see VR/AR following a similar trajectory. That's far more likely to be the killer app for it than the bizarre idea that it's somehow better than Zoom for meetings - which no one really wants to be in anyway.