Apple’s Vision Pro headset has ratcheted up interest in the AR and VR realm, but a report from Nokia and EY (the accountancy artist formerly known as Ernst & Young) claims that enterprise and industrial metaverses are ‘exceeding expectations.’ Immediately, alarm bells should be ringing, when hearing such proclamations. At the heart of the issue is the definition or concept of ‘the metaverse.’ Indeed, most pressing is that the use of the definite article implies directly that there is a single ‘metaverse.’ It seems oxymoronic to have multiple isolated metaverses, if a core tenet of the initial concept was the ability to have a shared ‘existence’ across different instances of this shared ecosystem. In much the same way that you…