Will the metaverse enable us to learn, and learn better? Matthew Ball, one of the leading experts on the metaverse, defends this position, arguing that immersive technology will, for instance, enable students to understand the laws of physics or budding surgeons to acquire mechanisms by operating on a virtual patient. Meta’s advertising campaign takes a similar approach, featuring students in the middle of dinosaurs or showing professionals practising technical movements. It is this perspective that we will attempt to question. What are the conditions under which there is learning? And what qualifies a good and successful learning? Learning cannot be reduced to the repetition of technical gestures or cognitive reflexes that could easily be reproduced by an artificial agent. Nor is it a stream of information received and memorised. Yet both elements are part of all learning. Learning in a modelled and simulated environment can undoubtedly modify our reflexes and practices, but learning means foremost acquiring knowledge through the exercise of intelligence. If we assume that all knowledge begins with the experience of the things to be known, then not everything can be learned in the metaverse, because the metaverse transforms the way we experience things by imposing a partially or totally simulated reality on our senses.