Without getting too technical, what the hell is a metaverse?
Zuckerberg thinks it is a way that
Facebook Meta users will celebrate how wonderful their 15th floor, damp, cladding-fire-trap flat is by donning a virtual reality headset and imagining that they are lounging on a beach in Hawaii flirting with friends around the world. Or maybe, frolicking about in the middle of a group of cuddly baa-lambs that will never, ever get killed and eaten.
Cynics/realists have already suggested that it will in (virtual!) reality allow nutcases round the world to feel that they too are storming the Capitol building, or maybe are standing next to Hitler as he delivers his speech at the Nuremberg rally...