I think immersive virtual worlds are an absolutely fascinateing topic - even though I don't see how our current ecosystem of centralized services and locked-down devices on the one hand and artificial scarcity by blockchain anarchists on the other hand can lead to anything desirable here.

But with the current discussion, I'm surprised we haven't heard more from other players in the field except facebook. What about the makers of VRChat or Second Life? Metaverse-style virtual realities are their bread and butter - and now for the first time, we have a discussion about this subject that includes the larger public. Shouldn't they be all over this?

And yet, the only ones talking about the "Metaverse" seems to be Facebook - pardon, Meta. So I wonder, if this whole Metaverse discussion an actual discussion at all or is it just Facebook kicking up dust?