It feels like a distant memory now, but just this once last year, the metaverse was going to be the next big thing. A revolution in the way we work, interact, go out and socialize.

Working from home was the new norm and every man and his dog was launching some sort of metaverse-adjacent project.

Of course, outside of the Web3 bubble, skepticism about this new, barely defined technological concept was widespread.

But that didn’t stop Facebook from throwing all its eggs into the metaverse basket in a ten billion dollar Meta rebrand bet in a vain attempt to secure its place as the progenitor of all things metaverse.

With Meta’s stock price in the gutter and his launch of Horizon Worlds bordering on disbelief, there’s no doubt that Mark Zuckerberg’s quest to be crowned king of…