Even early enterprise metaverse solutions are at least 3-5 years away

It’s going to take many years and lots of technology breakthroughs to actually make the metaverse happen. The challenge is, the metaverse is really not one thing any more than computing is one thing. It’s more of a concept than an architecture. A whole series of components are needed to make it work, and those components will differ across use cases. For example, the kind of enterprise metaverse environment needed in a manufacturing or health care setting is very different from the kind needed to collaborate on a piece of software in a workgroup setting.