By Chris DELMAS / AFP A year after rebranding itself from Facebook into Meta, the social network titan is striving to make the metaverse a routine part of daily life, offering users new features and promoting new virtual reality gear. A year after rebranding itself from Facebook into Meta, the social network titan is striving to make the metaverse a routine part of daily life, offering users new features and promoting new virtual reality gear. But analysts say the company has toned down the hype a bit as it struggles to reach its goal of creating an interactive virtual world that it sees as th…