You have to view this with a very sober, clear imagination. Peel away the hype and the reality is that "The Metaverse" will in fact just be a bunch of corporations with playgrounds, sand boxes like Roblox and Fortnite and any other place online that you can build, play and interact with people virtually and they will likely never absolutely require VR headsets, so they will resemble what we've already been seeing with virtual worlds for the last God damn 30 years.
The Metaverse isn't a new technology... It's just a new brand for ancient technologies, so talking about it as though it's a new thing is misleading, and you end up making very unlikely assumptions about how the term will be used beyond it being a mere brandword.
When people are in a game they mention that theyre either in the name of the game they're in or they simply say they're online. I highly suspect that this is unlikely to change just because a Corporation lables their playground a "Metaverse".
Metaverses are just open worlds, right? ... We've had them for decades and the only thing that's changing/advancing is what we can do inside of them. Metaverse is merely a hyped buzzword and a fun recycled idea that will be brand new for a lot of younger people (Gen Z) but absolutely ancient of an actual thing we use daily.
The best existing example of a Metaverse is Decentraland. It literally IS the decentralized Metaverse that these corps like Epic Games and FB wish they had thought of first, powered by the blockchain and NFTs with a thriving economy with events and virtual businesses. It's founders refer to it as *a* Metaverse, just like all the others will. So the question is, do you see people inside Decentraland saying they're "in the Metaverse" to refer to the fact that they're in Decentraland or do they simply say they're in Decentraland? I don't visit it personally as I find the idea of a Metaverse mostly boring and would rather play a game, but if I were to make a bet I'd put my money on people saying they're in "decentraland" just as we've been doing with virtual worlds for the last 30 God damn years
.. Metaverse is a buzzword that will likely change nothing about that....but let's see!