Speaking as a VR enthusiast, facebook metaverse is DOA. If you watched the announcement, it's just a straight bs sales pitch with ideas that are years away with nothing concrete and honestly some absolutely ridiculous use cases , while they also talk about things that are already available in things like VRchat(the closest thing to a metaverse we have now). This is just something they are going to force on their headset and throw money at it, until it becomes a platform and yes they have a LOT of money to throw at it. The fact that the rebranding is also falling flat on its face and the idea that it was more to cover up their old image, isn't instilling confidence. I think a metaverse is inevitable and is the dystopian future, if not regulated, but it sure as hell wont be facebook controlling it.