Metaverse

The broad social-platform story fizzled. Useful pieces survived in spatial computing, game engines, simulation and training data pipelines.

Original claim

Persistent 3D worlds would become the next office, mall and social graph.

Evidence

Meta's consumer metaverse push collapsed as a platform thesis; enterprise and gaming niches remained.

Lineage verdict

The broad social-platform story fizzled. Useful pieces survived in spatial computing, game engines, simulation and training data pipelines.

Wardley read

Metaverse sits at 30 / 100 on evolution and 28 / 100 on strategic visibility. The important question is whether it can move rightward into repeatable product and utility behavior.