The all lower case version of the word metaverse is used in reference to technologies, standards, organizations and other terms when it is used a an adjective to describe the connection of the noun to the Metaverse (ie. metaverse ethics, metaverse computational capacity) as opposed to the stand-alone noun preceded by the word ‘the’, as in the Metaverse, which is a single construct similar to the use of the word ‘Internet’ and ‘internet.’
