To be fair, furries are kinda the baseline of what you want to distinguish "the metaverse" from the real world. I can have meetings from home just as easily in

To be fair, furries are kinda the baseline of what you want to distinguish "the metaverse" from the real world. I can have meetings from home just as easily in the real world with a webcam and a Zoom call. The metaverse doesn't enhance that if all I'm doing is placing a 3D model that looks like me on a map and look at other 3D models of other people. (Plus, arguably strapping a VR brick to your face probably means it's worse than that Zoom call for physical health reasons.) Otoh the premise of "you can use a furry avatar to represent yourself" isn't one that appeals to me, but it does show that the people making it are thinking of "how can we make this different from the real world" instead of the lazy "let's move this real world thing to digital and make it as boring as reality can be".