Chesterton's Metaverse: An independent effort to create a global network of interoperable virtual worlds without understanding why flaws exist in existing standards bodies.

Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

Hypercorps' Metaverse: A virtual world interop specification that a small number of platform owners share but internally control.

Manufacturers' Metaverse: A virtual world interoperation implementation from a GPU manufacturer, headset manufacturer, or other manufacturer that only works well on their hardware.

Easy Peasy Metaverse: A set of virtual world interop specs and/or implementations that don't address essential problems like permission management, trusted UI, cross-site scripting, and paying artists.

Shooters' Metaverse: A set of inter-operating, photo-realistic, multi-player game worlds where shooting people and NPCs is the primary purpose.

Money Multiverse: A set of inter-operating virtual worlds that are optimized around ownership and capitalism with little attention paid to non-monetary goals.

Mosaic Metaverse: A set of loosely connected virtual spaces that run badly because they are awkwardly shoehorned into document rendering engines with baggage from the 90s.

Advertisers' Metaverse: A set of free and interconnected virtual spaces that track our environment and actions in order to display vaguely relevant purchasing pleas.