Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow tech oligarchs have has recently pushed the term “metaverse” a lot, promising all sorts of “revolutionary” changes that will occur in the way we interact with each other and with the world around us through a fusion of the physical and the digital. And you know what? Sure, okay. Every day he sees us traveling further down the dystopian rabbit hole, so we could also do a full cyberpunk with some science fiction existence plans as a “metaverse”.
Earlier this week, after months of publicity, the audience received Zuckerberg’s first major example of what awaits us with the fast-approaching, Facebook-enabled Metaverse. What does it look like, then? A sweet, Matrix-like situation, full of leather raincoats, platform boots and indoor sunglasses? Tron bicycles? Man, it would be quite funny and / or outrageous to find out all this, it’s just another overselling of a technological goal, already objectively horrible, to try to siphon even more of our time, money and private data information …
… Hmm. In the words of a disappointed man, but a little surprised: Well, we didn’t know what to expect.
This 2007-esque Wii Sports knockoff is Horizon Workrooms, the first major productivity project available now for beta testing on Facebook Oculus 2 VR headsets. ”Zuckerberg said that since middle school, he thought about how to create an immersive system where people could feel like they were together playing or exploring, part of something called a “metaverse.” read a report from CBS News. Of course, this sucks for two obvious reasons:
A) Zuckerberg has probably never played a game in his life.
B) We are not too sure has friends.
Horizon Workrooms is just a sad multimillion-dollar attempt to convince everyone otherwise. Sure, Zuck, you already have it totally I have a lot of best friends who think you are so much fun and entertaining, they just live in a different state. To the “metaverse”. So in short, Facebook’s revolutionary metaphysical transformation for society is basically fair Wii boardroom. What wonderful times we live in.
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