The idea of a Metaverse is not new, but the ways in which it can be created has vastly changed over the years. While platforms like Fortnite have shifted the idea of the Metaverse, companies like Meta are still trying to develop ways of bridging the gap between new technological capabilities and traditional gaming perspectives.
The best way to build the metaverse is to start with a successful game and then continuously release new versions that let capabilities grow and expand, such as Minecraft and Fortnite, which have over 100 million users. Meta is doing a bottoms-up capability approach with Horizon Worlds, and while it is a general-purpose platform, it is hard to compare and compete with games like Fortnite, which also has enormous amounts of creativity, even though it was not initially designed as a general-purpose sort of thing.
The internet has slowly but surely infected the real world, with its evolution in humor, websites, and social media leading the way, and with the VR space not playing out as expected.