The term Metaverse is a way of describing the largest container, the set of all sets of Universes and Multiverses. Like the term Metaphysics that means greater than physics or a larger paradigm than known physics, the term Metaverse is used by some science fiction writers (well, at least myself) in the sense of meaning the greatest possible Universe or Multiverse.
Facebook has used the term to refer to augment reality or virtual reality in its best form; perhaps with live input of real-world data. Reducing the term Metaverse to mean super-real virtual reality is a terrible waste of a perfectly good philosophical term for a contemporary idea.
No one who is at least just human actually knows if there is a solitary Universe or a single Multiverse . Mathematical physicists have speculated about a Multiverse existing and even one that is infinite in its number of Universes. It would be something like a Multiverse of fractal Multiverses and Universes with infinite permutations. Even if such a phenomenon exists, it would still occur within something or somewhere that hosts the entire phenomenon and that is what I mean by Metaverse; the largest possible containment host of all Universes or Multiverses- even if infinite in number.
When one gets to the level of a Metaverse it is then that one can consider the theological sketches of God's capacity to host a Metaverse within his thought in virtually no space at all. God could host a Metaverse in an atom of spirit one might guess. Because God is regarded by theologians as being infinite in power, knowledge and transcending of space-time his Metaverse would be consistent with a fully articulated Metaverse that always exists infinitely from alpha to omega within his mind. The Metaverse would be predestined yet sentient beings within would always be free...however that paradox is subject for another brief essay.
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