Maybe "Web3" is over.
* 2017 - the year of 3D TV.
* 2019 - the year of VR.
* 2021 - the year of Web3.
Let's check the meme department. Looking at Google Trends (US) for "NFT", "Web3", and "metaverse", they all peaked in late 2021 and are way down since then.
There are still people talking about Decentraland as if it were a big deal.[1] Right now, 401 connected users. Sominium Space is in single digits. Sandbox and Facebook/Meta Horizon don't give out numbers, but they're not huge and are probably shrinking.
I'm very interested in metaverse technology, but it's not coming from the "Web3" crowd. In China, virtual worlds on mobile are big, but they don't involve crypto.