Mark Zuckerberg, Envisions Facebook, as an Online 'Metaverse'.
Mark Zuckerberg, Envisions Facebook, as an Online 'Metaverse'.
The BBC reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has laid out his vision to transform Facebook into a “metaverse company” in the next five years.
The BBC reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has laid out his vision to transform Facebook into a “metaverse company” in the next five years.
A metaverse is an online world.
People can game, work and communicate there in a virtual environment, usually while wearing VR headsets.
Zuckerberg described it as “an embodied internet where instead of just viewing content - you are in it.”.
Zuckerberg described it as “an embodied internet where instead of just viewing content - you are in it.”.
You feel present with other people as if you were in other places, having different experiences that you couldn’t necessarily do on a 2D app or webpage, like dancing, for example, or different types of fitness, Mark Zuckerberg, via The Verge.
You feel present with other people as if you were in other places, having different experiences that you couldn’t necessarily do on a 2D app or webpage, like dancing, for example, or different types of fitness, Mark Zuckerberg, via The Verge.
Facebook is also working on an “infinite office.” .
It would allow users to create their ideal workplace through virtual reality.
In the future, instead of just doing this over a phone call, you’ll be able to sit as a hologram on my couch, or I’ll be able to sit as a hologram on your couch, and it’ll actually feel like we’re in the same place, even if we’re in different states or hundreds of miles apart, Mark Zuckerberg, via The Verge.
In the future, instead of just doing this over a phone call, you’ll be able to sit as a hologram on my couch, or I’ll be able to sit as a hologram on your couch, and it’ll actually feel like we’re in the same place, even if we’re in different states or hundreds of miles apart, Mark Zuckerberg, via The Verge.
However, according to the BBC, some experts have warned that a Facebook "metaverse" also raises some concerns.
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Now it's not just about where I click and what I choose to share, it's about where I choose to go, how I stand, what I look at for longest, the subtle ways that I physically move my body and react to certain stimuli, Verity McIntosh, a VR expert at the University of the West of England, via the BBC.
Now it's not just about where I click and what I choose to share, it's about where I choose to go, how I stand, what I look at for longest, the subtle ways that I physically move my body and react to certain stimuli, Verity McIntosh, a VR expert at the University of the West of England, via the BBC.
It's a direct route to my subconscious and that is gold to a data capitalist.
, Verity McIntosh, a VR expert at the University of the West of England, via the BBC.
It's a direct route to my subconscious and that is gold to a data capitalist.
, Verity McIntosh, a VR expert at the University of the West of England, via the BBC