Nobody knows what the metaverse is. The term, which has become one of the most popular fundraising idioms used in boardrooms across the country, is notoriously enigmatic. Can the metaverse be defined as a social space where players hang out? A multiverse divided into different parcels of land, governed by ruthless capital laws? Yet another extension of the questionable NFT gambit? Ask a million game developers and you’ll probably get a million different answers. One could argue that we’ve already been living in the metaverse for decades; after all, I spent much of my youth wandering outside the Ironforge auction house in World of Warcraft. You could also argue that the metaverse is a distant dream that can only be actualized by brooding futurists…