I don't understand the appeal of the 'metaverse' either. From what I can tell it's basically just some sort of MMO environment where you can do real life things

I don't understand the appeal of the 'metaverse' either. From what I can tell it's basically just some sort of MMO environment where you can do real life things in VR? That seems rather pointless to me, especially given that other companies and developers have done it much better. Like with Second Life or VRChat or various other such systems. Those don't like awful, let you be almost anything/anyone you want to be, and give you far more interesting environments to use/explore than anything Meta may have come up with for Horizon Worlds. Hell, even things like Roblox, Minecraft and Fortnite seem to be doing better as far as offering virtual environments people want to hang around in, and those are about a million times more popular than Meta's solution. And when you add the general dislike/distrust of Meta, Facebook and Zuck... well I'm not sure who it's meant to appeal to. Older folks that like Facebook? Not sure they care much about this sort of virtual world stuff. People use VR? Not sure most of those want to use a system controlled by Meta.