I’m not talking about Horizon Worlds, Mark Zuckerberg’s personal vanity project. Kudos to him for jumping to the bottom early on, but the execution so far has left me feeling somewhere between disappointed and terrified.

While I’ll admit that the avatars managed to capture their creator’s signature look, the newest version still isn’t quite as lifelike as I’d hoped from such a hyped release.

This isn’t the real metaverse: don’t let this first failed attempt turn you off. The possibilities of this technology, once fully matured, are truly limitless.

From a technology standpoint, there’s not much that’s getting in the way. All the necessary hardware already exists; it just needs to be expanded and refined.

But with something as complex as a fully interactive…