Metaverse is just a cool word that companies want to use to push services. I doubt VR will be a place in the way they illustrate in movies like Ready Player One. Most people want to communicate quickly with text and voice in 99% of communication scuenarios bc it's fast and efficient. People like to go virtual when they're playing games and socializing virtually in some cases, but in most cases they prefer not to go through the trouble of putting on a head set to go virtual. Virtual worlds that are not for games will have moments when they'll be collecting dust, or avatars will be just standing around as people are typing like what we see already in the lobbies of games lol...
There are more practical uses of Augmented Reality and it allows you to enhance the social scenarios you already have in real life.
AR (sometimes called MR when using a screen instead of glass) will bring more value to real life than VR and AR doesn't need "Metaverse" for marketing, so you will see some people and companies promoting AR without using the word "Metaverse", despite the fact that many include AR in the definition of Meraverse.
WWhen you are in an AR scenario you are using tech to enhance reality. It's not a virtual world, so ordinary people may find it impractical to use "the Metaverse" to describe their real life experiences choosing instead to say that sonething is in AR. But the AR service they use may self describe as a MV company.
So there are many ways this could play out. Keywords like XR, AR and VR still have value. My advice is not to out all of your eggs in one basket pumping all of your money in Metaverse(Meta, MV, MVerse, Verse, etc) related names. There will be a plethora of terms to describe the immersive technologies we use.
