Mark Zuckerberg has to be credited for making the term metaverse more popular last year, though this isn’t the first time companies have delved into this space. interesting engineering I had talked to the creators of Roblox and Chip Morningstar, who created a metaverse for the movie Habitat in 1997, even before Facebook was founded.

Yet no one has spent money chasing the dream of a digital world like Zuckerberg’s Meta has. That comes at a time when the company’s premium product, Facebook, is seeing negative growth for the first time in its history, which is especially worrying for investors.

What has Meta built so far?

It was in December of last year that Meta unveiled its Horizon Worlds and made it freely accessible to everyone. Earlier this week, it also opened pre-orders for its most advanced VR…