This is a straw man understanding of the Metaverse. If you actually read how it was described in "Snow Crash", you roughly get this definition:
"The Metaverse is a vast, immersive virtual world simultaneously accessible by millions of users through VR and other devices, highly customizable avatars and powerful experience creation tools. It is integrated with the real world economy and compatible with external technology."
There are many multiple platforms which have most or all of these key features, including Roblox, Fortnite, VRChat, and a dozen more, which have over 700 MILLION active users.
You're describing META's version of the Metaverse, which is so confusing, Meta's own employees say they don't understand it:
"The Metaverse is a vast, immersive virtual world simultaneously accessible by millions of users through VR and other devices, highly customizable avatars and powerful experience creation tools. It is integrated with the real world economy and compatible with external technology."
I break it down here: https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2022/02/sl-metaverse-stephenson-sn...
There are many multiple platforms which have most or all of these key features, including Roblox, Fortnite, VRChat, and a dozen more, which have over 700 MILLION active users.
You're describing META's version of the Metaverse, which is so confusing, Meta's own employees say they don't understand it:
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/01/meta-metaverse-blind-surve...