ChinRey Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 I stumbled on this video on YT. It really should have been named "How People Who Know Nothing About Virtual Reality View Virtual Reality". I gave up halfway through it but maybe others here would like to watch it all. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prokofy Neva Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 "I'm an excellent driver." One of the creepiest things Zuck says here is that there will be this "trippy" moment (he uses that word) where we will suddenly "break free" from screens, and he concludes there will be "no more screens" (I've seen other Metaverse hucksters make that claim.) But in fact, if you have to wear goggles or even "streamlined glasses" and also table tops and walls and basically anything can deliver an image, in fact, you have broken away from your 2 or 3 screens to an entire world of them babbling at you constantly. It's a nightmare. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Profaitchikenz Haiku Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 5 hours ago, ChinRey said: I stumbled on this video on YT. It really should have been named "How People Who Know Nothing About Virtual Reality View Virtual Reality". I think the look that Musk is giving Zuck is priceless I've said it elsewhere but it's still relevant. If we let the metaverse be created by an organization for financial(*) reasons, we won't get what we want, we'll get what they think they can sell us. This isn't just the simple case of "you pay, you use..." It's also "we find what you like so we can sell it to others..." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Profaitchikenz Haiku Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 I just finished watching the video, and when I flipped back to the news there was a bit of breaking news - "Facebook has changed it's company name to 'Meta', apparently as a result of the recent bad PR" I don't know why I've started humming to myself "shaved her legs and then he was a she..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animats Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Facebook's vision of the Metaverse is everybody wearing Facebook goggles for all their waking hours. This is the vision in "Hyperreality". (Search Google for the "Hyperreality" video). That's a dystopian vision which is all too close to being achievable. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animats Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 I've seen My First Metaverse Article by Joe Clueless about a hundred times now. Between the NFT scammers, Zuckerberg trying to take over, and Linden Lab fumbling the ball, the metaverse field has become frustrating. I want to see good virtual worlds. Not happening. (Except Roblox. They have a clue, a plan, users, and money. But their world is mostly 13 year olds.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Mistwalker Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 6 hours ago, Profaitchikenz Haiku said: we won't get what we want, we'll get what they think they can sell us. I thought that was called Second Life. ☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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