It was never alive to begin with. The Metaverse exists as nothing more than a buzzword made popular by Zuckerberg/Meta. There are no technologies, standards, devices or software driving it. Nobody even agrees on what features it should have.
And on top of that, old pre-buzzword stuff like SecondLife or PlaystationHome are still closer to a “Metaverse” than any of the more recent buzzword filled attempts.
fidodo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It is. Of the 3 big emergent techs, vr, crypto, and AI, ai is the only non bullshit one, and the meta verse bet on the other two…