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Serendipity and the Metaverse
“i'm still hopeful in vr. i really am. the magic is still there. it is alive. it’s just in the arts, not in tech. greedy investors and businessmen want to make it into a business plan and be in on the gold rush early. it's always been the case. edison with film, hearst with newspapers, steve jobs with pixar. if it's the potential to capture the
... See moreMark: phones, TVs, etc try to deliver experiences that feel high fidelity but at no point you feel like you are in it.... You can't have side conversations on Zoom.
Mark Zuckerberg • Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267
The key question: how do you replicate presence? Mark says Meta wants to make the most human thing possible: visual presence, spatial audio, temperature, olfactory system, touch, etc.
Mark Zuckerberg • Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267
The goal of the metaverse is not to build technology for people to interact with; but rather, build technology for people to interact with each otherSpatial audio and eye contact technology are just two features to drastically improve on current video meeting technology, for exampleEstablishing a presence is the most difficult problem
Mark Zuckerberg • Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267
I think our history with proto-metaverses should make us more skeptical about any claims for the emancipatory power of technology and technology platforms. After all, each of them both encountered and reproduced various kinds of social inequities, even as they strove not to, and many created problems that their designers did not foresee. Yet this
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