Fortnite is just another iteration of something that has been going for years. You could just name minecraft or several MMOs.
This is not a "new version" of internet, its the same internet, your games and simulations are simply getting more immersive, that's all.
And sure, i wouldn't mind getting paid in a virtual world with bitcoin so i could use them in real life for the pesky physical needs. Right now this is somewhat possible often doing gray or forbidden activities (the so called real money trading). But of course some games do allow it.
I have always thought games should use a real crypto rather than their (unsafe) virtual money, ie. actual Bitcoin or at least some altcoin.
...This is pretty much just sig spam right? Cause you're not fully understanding what is going on in fortnite and why it is being referenced in connection with the Metaverse.
It's being referenced in connecting with the MV because of the fact that they just had a concert in game with 12.3m people showing up to listen to the concert -- this was over a 2 day period, and I think that's very cool to see as we're just scraping the surface of the MetaVerse - https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/24/fortnite-hosted-a-psychedelic-travis-scott-concert-and-12-3m-people-watched/
Epic Games is going further and even planning encore events so the show is going to go on. Very cool.