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The Metaverse, once the hottest idea in tech, is headed to the industry's graveyard of failed fads.

An obituary for the latest fad to join the tech graveyard

The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died after being abandoned by the business world. It was three years old.