Metaverse could be toxic for women and minorities. How could there be moderation of users? They can speak anything and behave the way they like. Can we afford continuous recording? Will it not encroach on the privacy? And there are physical limitations of hardware — at some point the headset will run out of memory and power. It is not possible to monitor the users at meaningful scale.

While designing, iterating and bringing new products, we must be mindful that technology has the potential to harm the users.

Corporates may invest heavily in the concept of a metaverse. They would like to create a social, 3D virtual space to share the immersive experience, though people are not together physically.

Metaverse could be an existential threat to Facebook itself if it wards off mainstream customers from the medium. Facebook would like to have ‘almost Disney levels of safety’ for its virtual worlds.