For the Metaverse to become a success, three challenges need to be mastered: Simplify content creation, get a digital twin of everything, and train XR literacies for everyone. While generative AI makes headlines with democratizing design of text and flat images, it is harder and harder to find for 3D. Professor Fridolin Wild from The Open University (OU) will show frontier insights into innovation visible on the horizon, translating how we can harvest expected benefits in the context of learning and performance augmentation.