metaverse is just another niche in the crypto market nothing more in my opinion it was so popular back then but nowadays only very few select project are remaining, most of the projects right now just offer games integrating NFT and blockchain technology into the game and thats it, the metaverse I see there's no new project appearing to compete against the already established metaverse like sand and so on.
it will last long, but the hypes won't stay for too long, most of people already switching over narrative anyway, from metaverse to L2 now to meme coin again its always seemed like a cycle.
maybe metaverse in the future will be a thing when technology actually sufficient to give that impression i mean even apple also develops their own virtual reality environment so metaverse might make a come back but seeing that most of the equipment needed for full impression of metaverse isn't really there yet, yes what i mean is like those VR headset thats still heavy on your head, i guess metaverse won't comeback until any better technology comes out.