Welcome to the Metaverse mall

Boxing Day brings out the sales signs in the big department stores, but as more and more commerce moves online, Facebook and other tech giants hope we’ll take to shopping in the ‘metaverse’.

Welcome to the Metaverse?

Microsoft and Facebook are betting big on encouraging workers to collaborate in virtual worlds, but clunky, expensive headsets, childish avatars, management snooping and annoying interfaces mean the metaverse may never happen.