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At a very rudimentary level, I feel like Roblox is the closest thing to the concept of a metaverse as displayed in Ready Player One.

You have an avatar, that can traverse in and out of thousands of shared player made experiences, and you take your things with you. Is there much more to the concept?

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>Is there much more to the concept?

Roblox is owned by a single company. Only Roblox can host Roblox servers and if Roblox goes out of business it disappears. For the web to disappear every single site has to stop functioning.

for the web to disappear, the companies that hold the infrastructures that power internet have to go out of business, the websites are mere content creators

The virtual world in Ready Player One was also owned by a single company; so your point is?

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