Read Mayfly by Peter Watts, one of my favorite hard sf short stories that deals with a child being raised in a computer, sorta.
Also, here's the article in question in question. It's written as a sort of joke about the supposedly serious article on the same topic in daily mail which I haven't read yet.
As I've pointed out elsewhere in this thread metaverse in this headline is just a hot new buzzword for virtual reality. But if you're curious why facebook metaverse looks so bad, it's because it's designed to run on Facebook's $250 Quest 2 headset which is powered by what is basically smartphone hardware.