Well, about Meta (formerly FB) I can't say too much. Who knows...
About the Metaverse concept, I played several times in Second Life (SL) and I loved the innovation with their "Linden Dollars". I think that it was the real pioneer in having their own coin attached to the game, where the price fluctuated and you could trade them for FIAT. Some people say that SL died because of FB: more than half of the users were female, whose attention in their limited free time switched to the social network.
We were innovators there. It was too soon for a concept like that. But I really believe that now, with the new generation, it's the time for the Metaverse to really flourish.
Metaverse projects have their way to satisfy their customer to give the best experience ever but this is never meant when we talk about investment. Thies people who love social interactions, live interactions will surely get used to this technology but for those who are in businesses, this can be a wasting time for them.
If we'd say it was the future, it was uncertain and we know how technology develops faster more than to what we think and after this metaverse, there is a new one to exists that are/is more advanced.