Remember: Facebook grew from a core product that was essentially a "better" copy of numerous existing products. Same for the Google.

Starting entirely new things is not their strength. And it is not the strength of people working in mega corps. So you get nonsense like this, or if they do only after many years by hiring from scrappy hungry startups who solve the problem first..

If you build anything remotely Metaverse related and it works you will get acquired, because now.. the Metaverse _needs to_ succeed. And they're not going to do it with the people who work there.