I have watched countless explanations of the metaverse and still can't make sense of what it actually is. Their explanations sound like word salad and I would consider myself fairly tech savvy.
@@adamslions704 What!? Here on big think "the leading source of expert-driven, actionable, educational content" Your telling me this channel is a shill service? Who would have thought..
I need *More Reality* and *Less Technology* ... Because, so far, all technology has done for me is change a 40 hour work week into a 24/7 work week... And my identity being stolen twice.
This guy has a vested interest in convincing people that the metaverse is inevitable and that it will be a multi-trillion dollar industry. He has a book to plug and Epillyon is an angel investor in meta verse-invested companies. That doesn't make him an expert in the metaverse with any experience in predicting how much it will be adopted over time. He is financially invested in convincing us that we all should embrace the metaverse so his investments can grow and his books can sell. Virtual worlds and environments have been around for a long time and the engagement data doesn't extrapolate to the "inevitability" that he speaks of. Lives are immeasurably better when they remain disconnected for the majority of their waking lives from social media and the internet and when they spend the majority of their time in the real world, creating meaningful experiences with real people and places.
Well said, Manoj. Your last point is incredibly salient. Shills are gonna shill. It's too bad that garbage is being allowed on a channel called "Big Think" since it is anything but that.
I wonder a little if the people excited by this are being disengenuous in any way. Because the explanations for what they think this will add to the human experience don't sound as ground breaking as they present them to be.
It's been around for some time already. I didn't see it's significance 20+ yrs ago. But I see it it full swing in coming today. Watch it coming in advertising for us older folk I predict.
@@carademarcus I’m a younger gen z, trust me, it is not for my generation. Maybe generations after us. I barely even understand what this man is talking about, and it doesn’t sound as exciting and crazy as he’s trying to make it seem. Most companies are just using the metaverse for marketing, it honestly just seems like a way for those companies make money.
"The metaverse is comming. There is no turning back. We're going to go there." This ideia of inevitability that they're trying to force on us is what makes me the most angry... It's like we're powerless when it comes to our future.
Unless someone has the courage to organize a rebellion of unprecedented size and scope. But who? No one is even acknowledging the true damage to humanity right now because anyone conscious of the cyberworld is lost in it. It will take someone of vision with the time and energy to present the true threat of the metaverse to the masses. And no one has done that yet on any scale to make enough impact to inspire a rebellion. So the bricks of the devastatingly debilitating metaverse continue to be laid. They will continue to be until a capable person takes relentless action.
It almost seems like videos talking about the inception and early days of the Metaverse make a point of not mentioning Second Life. Second life has been around for over 19 years. If you want a start point, that is it, NOT The Zuck's Meta. Many of the things described in this video are already present and working within Second Life. It is missing crucial points, like interoperability with other platforms, but it still has a lot of the points this guy made.
@Falcon7001 I agree, going out of their way to ignore other worlds in the pre-existing metaverse, including Second Life and other Hypergrid-enabled interconnected worlds like Kitely, which has been around almost as long, but there are many others. Why focus on primitive stuff like Minecraft or Fortnite? Why doesn't he compare it to the Sims if he wants to make the pre-existing metaverse look inferior to Zuck's reinvention of the wheel.
Here's my decade long experience with A metaverse of sorts: Second Life. When I'm not there, I'm doing better mentally. Why? What Second Life enables is a more social setting in a virtual world. It's not just a chatroom or collection of chatrooms, but it's approaching a real social setting with audio/visual gestures, positioning and activity. It's like attempting to bring forth the best of both worlds and it does, but you know what it also does? Bring forth the worst of both worlds. You can be much more toxic because the engagement is on another level (compared to a simple chat room) and it's not always so easy to escape it. It still allows the griefer to be toxic with virtually no consequences to them personally, so they might just as well be more bold about it. On paper I still love the concept of a metaverse, but it's just a shame that we humans are still pretty trash in the sense that even if a very small percentage can ruin the whole thing, they can and they will. In real life at least they're much more restrained because there's a real fear of retaliation and accountability and in a simple chatroom it's much easier to avoid such griefers or just not get affected by them. This doesn't mean I shun the new ideas of metaverse. I'm pretty excited about them, but it's not without the sense of dread which should be addressed to avoid really, really bad user experiences. In Second Life there's basically no moderation by the Linden Labs themselves, there has to be. There has to be accountability for bad behavior and it has to be effective.
Good points, but with moderation comes it's other side - agenda, propaganda and censorship. They seems to want to monopolise/move as many things as possible onto just one, facebook's platform, which, if successful, would give them unprecedented power in censorship and propaganda, and many more. A taste of this we have had with covid agenda, where there was ONE and ONLY "scientific" view, which was scientific in name only. Are you a world renowned professor of virology? CNN/BBC/FOX tv faces know better, shut up or you can loose your job and funding... Mr dr F. knows it all and no discussion is allowed. I hope they will fail badly. It's quite bad already.
@@Angelicaarchangelica that's problematic since often you have to share spaces with multiple people and it can be really awkward when there's conversations and two persons involved in effect don't exist to each other or just one isn't even aware of the involvement of another because they have them blocked
@@Patralgan Exactly, if you block someone means you don't want that person involved in your life, if you tell someone they are not welcome why would you barge in into their living room or wherever else they are, unannounced, uninvited and unwelcomed? That should be regulated and outlawed somehow, but then there are cybercriminals that will hack you anyway. Imagine if neurolink becomes a widespread available option. Nightmare!
The metaverse was already implemented and has been operating for a couple of years now. It's a kids' game called Roblox. Also, have you ever heard of Runescape, Playstation Home or World of Warcraft? It seems like metaverse evangelists are forcefully trying to turn virtual world concepts into an abstract conception. Repackage and resell basically.
Can you move seamlessly between WoW and Roblox with the same avatar ? No. Because they are independant apps, not connected within the Metaverse. You should rewatch the video again.
In short. A simulation of real life. But, it could be tailored to any subject the providers chosen. Flight training simulations being one. Yet it'll be a lot more complex, in time.
With the massive resources that is been committed by world renowned companies like Meta to Metaverse makes one wonder whether it's a hype. And projects like StepApp, XANA & Decentraland just to mention few already in the system, The Metaverse is really something to look out for.
I'm still highly sceptical to this idea. It feels like someone is annoyed with me that I'm not already there, not even explaining me why I would want to be there and the harder the push, the less convincing the explanations are. To me, this was a high-level definition of an imaginary system that might be created one day, when big tech companies will work together to, feels like, concentrate even more power and create even bigger data lakes.
Based on this, Metaverse is still very much a concept and still a long way in building itself into a reality. Everything those companies are doing now in "the metaverse" is marketing and branding.
This is the best explanation of Metaverse I've ever heard on the internet. I am a non-techie and believe me, it was easy to understand the description given by Matthew Ball. Congrats and thank you so much, Matthew.
You need, if you're a loser, have no social life, no friends, no skills but bunch of money that your parents saved for you cause with them you can buy all the nfts that you need to spend in meta😏
Top facts about Metaverse: 1. The term “metaverse” first appeared in a dystopian cyberpunk novel “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson. It was written back in 1992. 2. According to Bloomberg Intelligence analysts, Metaverse may become an $800 billion market by 2024 3. There will be Real Estate, money, banks and land for selling in the metaverse. Indeed, some of them are already present in the virtual worlds. Now, think about it.
But you see how dumb that sounds, land in the multiverse, like sure on a website you must have a domain but like bruhhhhhh. Fucking stupid like it will make billions for video games, but using a different interface for zoom is not the metaverse is just the improvement of technology overtime and using it in a different application that is better like what are these people talking about
I don't think people hate the metaverse, they just hate the 6-13 trillion dollars he said at the beginning. Everything is about money. And we can seen where that has gotten us to.
I think we have limitations to our tolerance of the virtual. We will turn to the other direction and disconnect from social media. I don’t think these last 15 years have been particularly healthy for anyone.
One problem with vr is that it uses only two of our senses, so people don't want to use it for a long time. Example: the reason why people get sea sick is because their visual experience doesn't correspond with the swaying motion of the ship and your body
Except this is the future. No one knows if the metaverse will become mainstream in the next decade or century but it does appear to fall in the "natural" progression of technology and people's needs
If your "IQ dropped" from watching this video then you weren't paying attention. The ridiculous is no longer ridiculous once it becomes the norm. We already have what he's saying in video games but to establish a full functioning world in what he's speaking about requires "seeing in the future". It won't be here all of a sudden. Everything is incremental. 30yrs ago only rich people had cell phones.
This video, and the 'expert', is going to age about as well as the Jordan Peterson videos on Big Think. This has really put me off on the channel. In the past, technology has always pushed forward in a humble manner. But now we have these businessmen trying to sell us on 'the future'. Will the future come? Of course. But why is such a, supposedly, important and successful Souless Zuck-bot Clone telling us about it? What's in it for him? This is a huge waste of everyone's time.
Yes… right. “Technology has always pushed forth in a humble manner”. Like the web which pushed on so humbly in the 90’s through the dotcom boom and bust. Hmmmm 🤔
What’s the matter with baking soda and vinegar? Hitting two rocks together? Walking your dog? The metaverse is better than resting next to a babbling brook? A baby crying? The scent of my lover? This metaverse relies on something the first world takes for granted - electricity. I worked for companies that designed and built security and detection systems using X-rays, Computed Tomography, and millimeter waves. You know what’s less expensive and better? Dogs
The metaverse is a place where you can amplify the noise to the point where nobody can hear the signal. It is very marketable and can be very useful. But I'm certain it will be abused. (I've been to SecondLife and have built lots of stuff there & like many others, got bored.)
It already is. Most of the people in there are grifters, spammers/scammers, and disturbed people trying to get people that sound like kids to have virtual sex w/them. It's dead out of the gate.
It's a shit ton of money and brain power put towards something that isn't going to solve any of actually important problems nor bring something that anyone needs to have a good life.
there are so many people without access to the internet, even people that doesn't have anything to eat or drink water... solving that would do more to the humanity than a pair of headsets that isolate us from the real world.
The big companies spoken of, do not have kind hearts of compassion like you have. The target audience are consumers who have access to buy and use this "Meta mall". Once the quota of sheep herded into the VR realm is met, those left out will likely be ignored as poverty/starvation skyrockets or the "undesirables" will be deleted from the 3D realm for population control purposes. Thankfully, we peons are not interested so far... check out the movie "2047 Virtual Revolution" on Prime.
Everything about this irks me. There are so many problems that needs to be addressed in the real world before we create problems in a virtual one... Nothing good can come from this new energy intensive reliance controlled by a small number.
Meta in the term means “beyond” and verse refers to the “universe.” Moreover, some people also use the term metaverse to refer to virtual worlds in which players can roam around and interact with other players; for instance, a world where developers can build buildings, parks, signs and things that do not exist in reality
He sounds like Zuckerberg's salesman. They try sooo hard to make a hype around "The Metaverse" while everyone is laughing. He mentioned money way too much in the video, too.
@@cdsackett Yes exactly. That's the sort of blinkerd, philistine pig-ignorance we've come to expect from non-creative shills when faced with legitimate concerns and how they just invalidate them with a limp wristed "meh". Good job on displaying such valiant bravery, by sharing your spicey-yet-woefully-predictable hot take thought with all of us. I bet you broke your thesaurus rummaging for that perfect response.
But what problems does this solve exactly? The gaming industry has been busy with this for 20 years and still hasn't come up many useful applications (outside the scope of gaming) Also, can we really afford to ignore the real world any more?
You're a little ahead of your time, Mr. Ball. And the fact that the metaverse was named after a dystopic concept should be something you focus on. That said, I do wish for the metaverse to come into being. However, it needs to happen in a democratized way, and during a time in which state actors who actively use misinformation to twist people's minds are no longer in existence. Yes, I'm talking about the CCP and Putin's corruptocracy. A little hint, human beings are used to living in the real world. If you want to get people into meta, you shouldn't focus on the 3d immersive experience first. You should focus on augmented reality first. Put your underwear on before you put on your pants, my friend, not the other way around.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't see a majority of people spending huge amounts of time in virtual worlds. I've been a gamer for all of my life, and I don't see myself spending hours with a headset on. I think most of us desperately need more fulfilling real life experiences, not a virtual parallel universe. This will not happen, it will not be a major industry, at least not until we have something as immersive as the Star Trek holodeck, so there's no way this will happen by the end of the decade.
They also only work with power sources. The saying “don’t put your eggs in one basket” needs to be a concept in the importance placed on the technology. Always assume the worst possible outcome, this way a failure in the system won’t be responsible for any harm
This fantasy meta universe is the smoke screen of stock market manipulation They’ll come up with mediocre things which will go nowhere and they’ll say “we tried but the world is not ready” and pocket trillions selling the stock
How about a "Producers" slant, where squatters take over the platform, making it a runaway success? The investors who overpaid for startup's original business model want their 1000% share of the profits now.
To quote VR-pioneer Jaron Lanier: “If you run [the metaverse] on a business model that’s similar to the one that Facebook runs on, it’ll destroy humanity. I’m not saying that rhetorically. That is a literal and specific prediction that humanity could not survive that.”
Nuff said. Hard pass. @ 3:00 mark - the term Metaverse comes from the "dystopic" science fiction novel Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson. Dystopia is "An imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible."
"take something that you own from one place to another" This is why the metaverse as Mr Ball describes it won't work. We don't own anything here. I don't own this comment, as soon as I click 'Comment' it becomes Google's property. If I upload a video, that's now Google's video. You're never going to get an IP lawyer to sign off on a companies property literally walking to a competitor.
Vr has a lot of potentiel and can do great thinks.(education, empathie, sports, simulation and others great things) Thhere are several race to gain economic dominance (space, energy, ... and VR = gain the attention of everyone) but I'm afraid that people will be " trap" inside the metaverse, our moderm society will enjoy so much the metaverse (life is too hard, metaverse is better) Objectif : make people addict to metaverse and make them the product (so much stimulis : entertainement, shopping, religion and other) Look at the impact of social media now (tik tok is destroying the "brain" of the news generation - they will be useless, sheep mass consumer witch 0 self control) , just imagine what can the metaverse causes if use for selfish or economic interets. Maybe I'm too pessimist (got red pills by our economic reality - black rock, Davos, tik tok, politic...), I love VR but if Meta succeeds, another generation can be doom and will be useless.
VR,AR, Metaverse,.. are always going to be a part of life, not the replacement of reality. If we forget that phones exists and we travel back to the 1980s, we would ask that person, who's standing alone at the corner, talking to a large black brick, why he's standing there alone. That person who's calling someone doesn't feel trapped or cares that he's hearing a simulated voice of the person he wants to call..
Anybody who plays mmo games is familiar with the metaverse. I think it's strange that these companies are acting as though the metaverse is something brand new, and fail to mention virtual worlds like Second Life and Entropia Universe.
To be meta or larger than life it would need to include love and the real reward of helping other people in real life and being helped. Metaverse and love do not interact. Phenomena is an illusion. What we learn in this world that is important is not making new ways of experiencing the world. What makes us better people is learning to forgive others and ourselves and using that opening of ourselves to share our greater capacity to be kind.
Stop trying to convince people what a metaverse is because everything said is not "the metaverse." its a fictional term created in Snow Crash for the internet itself. 1) its not a place. 2) its not a game or website, 3) its not crypto or NFTS 4) its not controlled by anyone one company, 5) its accessible by everyone with a means to connect to it. That's the internet. Deal with it.
This is so manipulative i don't even know where to start. People didnt evolve to touch 2d glass screens and even less carying 2 pounds of gear on their heads and seeing silly avatars. I think humanity realised that human contact, real face to face dialogue, real handshakes and hugs not gif reactions is the healthy way to live. We need to heal because social media already made us mentally ill. Humans can't be just data on a server, or sitting on a couch mindfucked with a vr headset. I'm unsubscribing.
Technological advances are the cause of the climate catastrophe... cloud seeding , GMOs, pesticides, environmental toxins, weather warfare, etc. Our devastations of now, are repercussions of smarty pants oopsies of the past. Stop playing god is the solution.
Nah, it's VR and just a novelty. As much as this guy wants it to be more, it's just not. But he has to say all of that stuff b'c of his position. Which, incidentally, if you have to say that much stuff about it and sell people on it, then it's not that great to begin with. Much like the Wii, it will be hyped and people will say 'oh this is kinda neat', then it will be dropped. If augmented reality was a flop, why would a fully-digital 'metaverse' have any hope for survival - especially since people don't trust Facebook and it's becoming another MySpace? The most important thing to remember is that those in the real world control the digital one and if you place yourself in it, you allow yourself to be controlled by someone else's whims. The metaverse isn't freedom, isn't freeing and isn't the utopian panacea that's it's being painted as. It's just the opposite.
Any metaverse has to be optional, verifiable and thus 'owned by the citizens'. No other model will end up providing true value. Anything 'virtual' is by definition anti-human. Climb that bloody mountain yourself: prepare, get set back, prepare harder and smarter then do. The human ego is always a problem.
I'm still not enthusiastic about metaverse stuff. I can see it as a learning tool, so that's relatable to me. I'm a social introvert, so I don't really see me going into the metaverse to do things and go places by myself, when I already do that in the real world.
This video is actually really cringey. This guy is such a techbro. The Metaverse will revolutionize nothing. Human behavior will remain exactly the same. Peopl will continue to indulge in their vices, only now without limits.
I heard flying cars in the 1980s, I hear every car would be self driving by 2010 and I heard bitcoin would used everywhere by 2020. These predictions are always way off. Even if they are technically possible in a technology sense the government can't legislate fast enough or good enough. You can read the book "Play Money" from 2007 that illustrates some of the problems, the authors goal was to make money selling virtual products in a game. How was he taxed, when creating such virtual products, the IRS still doesn't handle this virtual world very well.
sooo… it’s basically real life but on the internet? did anyone ask for more internet in their lives? idk i think we all desperately need some sun, some trees and a swim in some water :)
Whether it consists of virtual worlds or augmented reality technology, metaverse remains a gateway to more complex experience justifying the ultimate question of who will be entitled to adopt to the other humans to technology or vice-versa,mind-blowing stuff 😵💫🥳🚀
Metaverse, Simply & Honestly : Capitalism recognized that a finite world needs an infinite resource for continual growth, which can also be artificially restricted for controlled scarcity. What better product/land/service/amusement than one which costs only server space & nominal electricity, yet can yield unimaginable profit margin? The public perception of value, thus investment of real life funds, relies on luring enough of the population into participating. They will make it difficult to avoid too, by shifting other means of engagement & transaction into this new medium. But most people *will* go willingly (marketing/fomo/Joneses/etc). TLDR; greed. It's just more greed.
My question is: why? Why do we feel the need to transfer everything into a digital world instead of trying to make the real world a better place? Why do we need to spend trillions in creating a coherent, complete and harmonious Digital world instead of spending these Money into transforming the real world into such a place? If we are talking about creating a virtual Paradise, that will never suffice unless we'll all be transferred there permanently. But if we do that, who will stay behind to run the real world? Take care of our own physical bodies?
The "metaverse" is like that social media site that was hot for years, but loses popularity because of all the ads and monetization and people move to the next big thing with less annoying ads. Only the "metaverse" just skips that whole phase of being trendy and not overbearing with ads. It's just going to be a bunch of people trying to sell shit people don't need to other people selling shit people don't need at this rate lol. It's just rehashed ideas we already have, being done better outside of the "metaverse" in a less complicated and more convenient way.
9:34 "We should also think of a world filled with sensors, scanning cameras, projection cameras, to allow us to be actively in the Metaverse." Then imagine having Facebook/Meta being the frontman of this "new" era of technology, with their squeaky clean, spotless, flawless, perfect track record involving user data and user privacy (/s obviously). Bye bye privacy. People will be / are already enraged if there's cameras at every corner of the street just to thwart CRIMES, but somehow you expect people to be okay with the installation of cameras and sensors for the purposes of the Metaverse? What a pitch.
Don’t really get the “if you build it they will come” mentality. Said another way… if you had never heard of carpentry before and I put a hammer in your hand, would you automatically conclude that it’s made for building? It’s not technology that determines the use. Mankind has a need and finds a way to solve it. All of the use cases presented here other than education and medical science feel cringy
The Metaverse has the potential to revolutionize education by providing an immersive and interactive learning experience. With its limitless possibilities for exploration and collaboration, the Metaverse is set to transform the traditional classroom setting and open up new avenues for learning and innovation. As we enter a new era of technology and education, the Metaverse is an exciting and promising development that holds great promise for learners and educators alike.
Sure. I'll pop into a holodeck now and again but there's no way that Ready Player One is that interesting. I remember well getting onto the "internet" in 1989 and seeing its value. This? Only for a few speciality needs and then being a liability to billions of others in our society.
How can you be absolutely sure of who one is interactive with? If deep fakes can be generated by AI for common videos, how can one avoid falsification in the metaverse environment ?
I feel like I’m being convinced of something rather than informed about something.
I have watched countless explanations of the metaverse and still can't make sense of what it actually is. Their explanations sound like word salad and I would consider myself fairly tech savvy.
@@tjwoosta It's over my head.
@@tjwoosta it's not designed to make sense, it's all vague tech wording pile together for the purpose of scamming people with corporate backup
@@adamslions704 What!? Here on big think "the leading source of expert-driven, actionable, educational content" Your telling me this channel is a shill service? Who would have thought..
Yeah ground reality 😑
I need *More Reality* and *Less Technology* ... Because, so far, all technology has done for me is change a 40 hour work week into a 24/7 work week... And my identity being stolen twice.
This guy has a vested interest in convincing people that the metaverse is inevitable and that it will be a multi-trillion dollar industry. He has a book to plug and Epillyon is an angel investor in meta verse-invested companies. That doesn't make him an expert in the metaverse with any experience in predicting how much it will be adopted over time. He is financially invested in convincing us that we all should embrace the metaverse so his investments can grow and his books can sell. Virtual worlds and environments have been around for a long time and the engagement data doesn't extrapolate to the "inevitability" that he speaks of. Lives are immeasurably better when they remain disconnected for the majority of their waking lives from social media and the internet and when they spend the majority of their time in the real world, creating meaningful experiences with real people and places.
Well said, Manoj. Your last point is incredibly salient. Shills are gonna shill. It's too bad that garbage is being allowed on a channel called "Big Think" since it is anything but that.
Thats cause it is and will be. Imagine without googles and think of the Holodeck experience from Star Trek the Next Generation.
So true,it'd be nice if he came out & said he was the person you informed us about."vested interest"?!?
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I wonder a little if the people excited by this are being disengenuous in any way. Because the explanations for what they think this will add to the human experience don't sound as ground breaking as they present them to be.
Of course they are lol. They present Metaverse like Second Life doesn’t exist. 💀
In a way. honestly though, it’s for the younger generation. Generation z not for older people like us
His “10 point definition” is just 10 redundancies
It's been around for some time already. I didn't see it's significance 20+ yrs ago. But I see it it full swing in coming today. Watch it coming in advertising for us older folk I predict.
@@carademarcus I’m a younger gen z, trust me, it is not for my generation. Maybe generations after us. I barely even understand what this man is talking about, and it doesn’t sound as exciting and crazy as he’s trying to make it seem. Most companies are just using the metaverse for marketing, it honestly just seems like a way for those companies make money.
According to this guy, there is a bright future for psychiatrists
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"The metaverse is comming. There is no turning back. We're going to go there." This ideia of inevitability that they're trying to force on us is what makes me the most angry... It's like we're powerless when it comes to our future.
Yeah could this video start of any more stupid and pretentious?
I mean does this guy have any shame?
Yeah. Who wants the metaverse? Not me. We’re far from
done with the real universe.
I want to see this fails.
Unless someone has the courage to organize a rebellion of unprecedented size and scope. But who? No one is even acknowledging the true damage to humanity right now because anyone conscious of the cyberworld is lost in it. It will take someone of vision with the time and energy to present the true threat of the metaverse to the masses. And no one has done that yet on any scale to make enough impact to inspire a rebellion. So the bricks of the devastatingly debilitating metaverse continue to be laid. They will continue to be until a capable person takes relentless action.
Metaverso veio para inovar!
It almost seems like videos talking about the inception and early days of the Metaverse make a point of not mentioning Second Life. Second life has been around for over 19 years. If you want a start point, that is it, NOT The Zuck's Meta. Many of the things described in this video are already present and working within Second Life. It is missing crucial points, like interoperability with other platforms, but it still has a lot of the points this guy made.
Not only second life my friend , all video games from the inception of micro transactions in video games
The metaverse doesn't exist yet.
Second Life is not the Metaverse, it was a social game where players were roleplaying with their avatars.
@@wanderin6724 You obviously know nothing about Second Life.
@Falcon7001 I agree, going out of their way to ignore other worlds in the pre-existing metaverse, including Second Life and other Hypergrid-enabled interconnected worlds like Kitely, which has been around almost as long, but there are many others. Why focus on primitive stuff like Minecraft or Fortnite? Why doesn't he compare it to the Sims if he wants to make the pre-existing metaverse look inferior to Zuck's reinvention of the wheel.
@@suanach Enough to understand that it's not the metaverse.
Here's my decade long experience with A metaverse of sorts: Second Life. When I'm not there, I'm doing better mentally. Why? What Second Life enables is a more social setting in a virtual world. It's not just a chatroom or collection of chatrooms, but it's approaching a real social setting with audio/visual gestures, positioning and activity. It's like attempting to bring forth the best of both worlds and it does, but you know what it also does? Bring forth the worst of both worlds. You can be much more toxic because the engagement is on another level (compared to a simple chat room) and it's not always so easy to escape it. It still allows the griefer to be toxic with virtually no consequences to them personally, so they might just as well be more bold about it.
On paper I still love the concept of a metaverse, but it's just a shame that we humans are still pretty trash in the sense that even if a very small percentage can ruin the whole thing, they can and they will. In real life at least they're much more restrained because there's a real fear of retaliation and accountability and in a simple chatroom it's much easier to avoid such griefers or just not get affected by them. This doesn't mean I shun the new ideas of metaverse. I'm pretty excited about them, but it's not without the sense of dread which should be addressed to avoid really, really bad user experiences. In Second Life there's basically no moderation by the Linden Labs themselves, there has to be. There has to be accountability for bad behavior and it has to be effective.
Good points, but with moderation comes it's other side - agenda, propaganda and censorship. They seems to want to monopolise/move as many things as possible onto just one, facebook's platform, which, if successful, would give them unprecedented power in censorship and propaganda, and many more.
A taste of this we have had with covid agenda, where there was ONE and ONLY "scientific" view, which was scientific in name only. Are you a world renowned professor of virology? CNN/BBC/FOX tv faces know better, shut up or you can loose your job and funding... Mr dr F. knows it all and no discussion is allowed.
I hope they will fail badly. It's quite bad already.
Thanks for sharing. TH-cam comments are beautiful for contemplating an idea collectively
They need to regulate privacy rights and the ability to choose who you are interactive with.
@@Angelicaarchangelica that's problematic since often you have to share spaces with multiple people and it can be really awkward when there's conversations and two persons involved in effect don't exist to each other or just one isn't even aware of the involvement of another because they have them blocked
@@Patralgan Exactly, if you block someone means you don't want that person involved in your life, if you tell someone they are not welcome why would you barge in into their living room or wherever else they are, unannounced, uninvited and unwelcomed? That should be regulated and outlawed somehow, but then there are cybercriminals that will hack you anyway. Imagine if neurolink becomes a widespread available option. Nightmare!
The metaverse was already implemented and has been operating for a couple of years now. It's a kids' game called Roblox. Also, have you ever heard of Runescape, Playstation Home or World of Warcraft? It seems like metaverse evangelists are forcefully trying to turn virtual world concepts into an abstract conception. Repackage and resell basically.
bro wtf. This video is literally about explaining u the difference between the metaverce and roblox lol
Can you move seamlessly between WoW and Roblox with the same avatar ? No. Because they are independant apps, not connected within the Metaverse. You should rewatch the video again.
So i still dont know what metaverse is and how it can be used. The guy is pretty much explaining what real life is.
The meta verse is the matrix, just in very early development. Get ready. The devil is here to separate us from our human body.
Its such a big and important thing that they need to advertise and sell it to the population before revealing what it actually is of course.
In short. A simulation of real life. But, it could be tailored to any subject the providers chosen. Flight training simulations being one. Yet it'll be a lot more complex, in time.
@@gusthethird9665 loool wtf man
That's because the metaverse is a evolution of the digital into a life comparable to real life.
With the massive resources that is been committed by world renowned companies like Meta to Metaverse makes one wonder whether it's a hype. And projects like StepApp, XANA & Decentraland just to mention few already in the system, The Metaverse is really something to look out for.
I'm still highly sceptical to this idea. It feels like someone is annoyed with me that I'm not already there, not even explaining me why I would want to be there and the harder the push, the less convincing the explanations are. To me, this was a high-level definition of an imaginary system that might be created one day, when big tech companies will work together to, feels like, concentrate even more power and create even bigger data lakes.
Based on this, Metaverse is still very much a concept and still a long way in building itself into a reality. Everything those companies are doing now in "the metaverse" is marketing and branding.
That's exactly right.
Agree, and there's also Entropia Universe.
Yeah, well, you know... that's just, like, your opinion, man.
The dude abides
This is the best explanation of Metaverse I've ever heard on the internet. I am a non-techie and believe me, it was easy to understand the description given by Matthew Ball. Congrats and thank you so much, Matthew.
So why exactly do we need the metaverse??? Oh we don't. OK 👌🏾
You need, if you're a loser, have no social life, no friends, no skills but bunch of money that your parents saved for you cause with them you can buy all the nfts that you need to spend in meta😏
Do we need the internet ?
@@TartempionLampion If you want to be brutally honest, also NO.
What commercials look like… feels biased af.
Wild how this channel is blatantly bought by fundamentalists.
It’s like they’re shoving it down your throat
Top facts about Metaverse:
1. The term “metaverse” first appeared in a dystopian cyberpunk novel “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson. It was written back in 1992.
2. According to Bloomberg Intelligence analysts, Metaverse may become an $800 billion market by 2024
3. There will be Real Estate, money, banks and land for selling in the metaverse. Indeed, some of them are already present in the virtual worlds.
Now, think about it.
I think metaverse is bs
But you see how dumb that sounds, land in the multiverse, like sure on a website you must have a domain but like bruhhhhhh. Fucking stupid like it will make billions for video games, but using a different interface for zoom is not the metaverse is just the improvement of technology overtime and using it in a different application that is better like what are these people talking about
A third of the way in, decided to go walk through the 'metaverse' aka the forest, nature.
I don't think people hate the metaverse, they just hate the 6-13 trillion dollars he said at the beginning.
Everything is about money. And we can seen where that has gotten us to.
Nah... I hate the Metaverse too, even more after watching this video twice to understand why I have such disdain for it. 😏
I think we have limitations to our tolerance of the virtual. We will turn to the other direction and disconnect from social media. I don’t think these last 15 years have been particularly healthy for anyone.
One problem with vr is that it uses only two of our senses, so people don't want to use it for a long time. Example: the reason why people get sea sick is because their visual experience doesn't correspond with the swaying motion of the ship and your body
That'll be old news in a year two max. I'm not worried and will continue to add to my meta stock
@@juicegeneral5082 I feel sorry for you and your laughing stock
If it's not made by God. It's not for me. If God wanted us to have these things, they wouldn't be so hard pressed for achievement.
@@GodFearingMan222 Oh, come on, even your house is designed and built by men, not by God. Not to mention your clothes and foods.
@@otapi we were meant to live in houses, wear clothes. I don't believe we were meant to have microchips in our bodies.
"Ready Player One"??? Can we at least *attempt* to fix one reality, before we set out to ruin a new one??
I feel like my IQ dropped by 12 points taking this video premise seriously by watching it and wasting my time.
3D TV did not take off
Except this is the future.
No one knows if the metaverse will become mainstream in the next decade or century but it does appear to fall in the "natural" progression of technology and people's needs
Agreed.
You need it, and you don't know it is one of the worst selling points ever.
If your "IQ dropped" from watching this video then you weren't paying attention. The ridiculous is no longer ridiculous once it becomes the norm. We already have what he's saying in video games but to establish a full functioning world in what he's speaking about requires "seeing in the future". It won't be here all of a sudden. Everything is incremental. 30yrs ago only rich people had cell phones.
This video, and the 'expert', is going to age about as well as the Jordan Peterson videos on Big Think. This has really put me off on the channel. In the past, technology has always pushed forward in a humble manner. But now we have these businessmen trying to sell us on 'the future'. Will the future come? Of course. But why is such a, supposedly, important and successful Souless Zuck-bot Clone telling us about it? What's in it for him?
This is a huge waste of everyone's time.
Yeah, this. This comment is exactly it.
Don’t disrespect my boy Jordan like that
He's just explaining what it means, he's not trying to sell you anything.
Metaverse is coming. Please. Believe me. Begin assimilation.
Yes… right. “Technology has always pushed forth in a humble manner”. Like the web which pushed on so humbly in the 90’s through the dotcom boom and bust. Hmmmm 🤔
"You are in a live 3d simulation and you just don't know it". No sir, I beg to differ, reality is not VR.
@@chinopisces id say you are missing the point
What’s the matter with baking soda and vinegar? Hitting two rocks together? Walking your dog? The metaverse is better than resting next to a babbling brook? A baby crying? The scent of my lover?
This metaverse relies on something the first world takes for granted - electricity.
I worked for companies that designed and built security and detection systems using X-rays, Computed Tomography, and millimeter waves. You know what’s less expensive and better? Dogs
The metaverse is a place where you can amplify the noise to the point where nobody can hear the signal. It is very marketable and can be very useful. But I'm certain it will be abused. (I've been to SecondLife and have built lots of stuff there & like many others, got bored.)
I nearly forgot abot SecondLife...
It already is. Most of the people in there are grifters, spammers/scammers, and disturbed people trying to get people that sound like kids to have virtual sex w/them. It's dead out of the gate.
It's a shit ton of money and brain power put towards something that isn't going to solve any of actually important problems nor bring something that anyone needs to have a good life.
Trying to use tech to acheive something that exists if you step outside and talk to people is just a concept I can't understand
Had to wait till 9 and half minutes for him to start explaining properly what the metaverse is
there are so many people without access to the internet, even people that doesn't have anything to eat or drink water... solving that would do more to the humanity than a pair of headsets that isolate us from the real world.
The big companies spoken of, do not have kind hearts of compassion like you have. The target audience are consumers who have access to buy and use this "Meta mall". Once the quota of sheep herded into the VR realm is met, those left out will likely be ignored as poverty/starvation skyrockets or the "undesirables" will be deleted from the 3D realm for population control purposes. Thankfully, we peons are not interested so far... check out the movie "2047 Virtual Revolution" on Prime.
Everything about this irks me. There are so many problems that needs to be addressed in the real world before we create problems in a virtual one... Nothing good can come from this new energy intensive reliance controlled by a small number.
Especially if this power is in the hands of elites who could potentially exploit it. We need to find a way to protect individuality and privacy
Aw friggin' sweet! Man made horrors beyond my comprehension 😀👍
Hahaha
I don't use FaceBook and I probably won't use the Metaverse either.
don't think ur better or smarter than everyone else cuz u still on youtube commenting and posting videogames videos, what's the difference?
Meta in the term means “beyond” and verse refers to the “universe.” Moreover, some people also use the term metaverse to refer to virtual worlds in which players can roam around and interact with other players; for instance, a world where developers can build buildings, parks, signs and things that do not exist in reality
yes let’s all isolate ourselves even more until depression and suicides skyrocket 🚀😢
this universe traumatised me enough... I am pretty sure I do not need the metaverse.
I bet he managed to write a whole book about the Meta hype and not mention Second Life once. 🤣
He actually did.
it's not primarily about Meta hype and it does discuss second life
He sounds like Zuckerberg's salesman. They try sooo hard to make a hype around "The Metaverse" while everyone is laughing. He mentioned money way too much in the video, too.
So the metaverse is going to be a giant virtual shopping mall, can’t wait
Guess I'm moving to a tech free cult in the mountains in a few years...
I've just been referring to "The Metaverse" as another Mark Zuckerberg cash grab.
you mean invasion of privacy?
@@stachowi That too.
Meh
@@cdsackett Yes exactly. That's the sort of blinkerd, philistine pig-ignorance we've come to expect from non-creative shills when faced with legitimate concerns and how they just invalidate them with a limp wristed "meh". Good job on displaying such valiant bravery, by sharing your spicey-yet-woefully-predictable hot take thought with all of us. I bet you broke your thesaurus rummaging for that perfect response.
I don't think many commenters in here has watched the entire video.
Or they just didn't watched it and started commenting straight away.
yeah right, how many dumb comments lol
But what problems does this solve exactly?
The gaming industry has been busy with this for 20 years and still hasn't come up many useful applications (outside the scope of gaming)
Also, can we really afford to ignore the real world any more?
You're a little ahead of your time, Mr. Ball. And the fact that the metaverse was named after a dystopic concept should be something you focus on. That said, I do wish for the metaverse to come into being. However, it needs to happen in a democratized way, and during a time in which state actors who actively use misinformation to twist people's minds are no longer in existence. Yes, I'm talking about the CCP and Putin's corruptocracy. A little hint, human beings are used to living in the real world. If you want to get people into meta, you shouldn't focus on the 3d immersive experience first. You should focus on augmented reality first. Put your underwear on before you put on your pants, my friend, not the other way around.
You said : "...You shouldn't focus on the 3d immersive experience first". Well in actuality that is what the Metaverse is based on.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't see a majority of people spending huge amounts of time in virtual worlds. I've been a gamer for all of my life, and I don't see myself spending hours with a headset on. I think most of us desperately need more fulfilling real life experiences, not a virtual parallel universe. This will not happen, it will not be a major industry, at least not until we have something as immersive as the Star Trek holodeck, so there's no way this will happen by the end of the decade.
They also only work with power sources. The saying “don’t put your eggs in one basket” needs to be a concept in the importance placed on the technology. Always assume the worst possible outcome, this way a failure in the system won’t be responsible for any harm
Metaverse is an advanced space existing inbetween reality & imagination
This fantasy meta universe is the smoke screen of stock market manipulation
They’ll come up with mediocre things which will go nowhere and they’ll say “we tried but the world is not ready” and pocket trillions selling the stock
How about a "Producers" slant, where squatters take over the platform, making it a runaway success? The investors who overpaid for startup's original business model want their 1000% share of the profits now.
@@SharePtless there is no market for vr or this meta platform. How we input and process data is the future, and not how we consume it. Meta is absurd
People need to put away the devices and get out and interact with the real world. We need less meta, and more face to face human interaction.
To quote VR-pioneer Jaron Lanier: “If you run [the metaverse] on a business model that’s similar to the one that Facebook runs on, it’ll destroy humanity. I’m not saying that rhetorically. That is a literal and specific prediction that humanity could not survive that.”
this is how a commercial for computer gaming should be done.
In a few words: Metaverse is just a glorified Roblox.
I don't udnerstand what is so "revolutionary" about it.
Nuff said. Hard pass. @ 3:00 mark - the term Metaverse comes from the "dystopic" science fiction novel Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson.
Dystopia is "An imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible."
Well, it's the time to add
"science literacy " in school syllabus.
"take something that you own from one place to another" This is why the metaverse as Mr Ball describes it won't work. We don't own anything here. I don't own this comment, as soon as I click 'Comment' it becomes Google's property. If I upload a video, that's now Google's video. You're never going to get an IP lawyer to sign off on a companies property literally walking to a competitor.
Vr has a lot of potentiel and can do great thinks.(education, empathie, sports, simulation and others great things)
Thhere are several race to gain economic dominance (space, energy, ... and VR = gain the attention of everyone)
but I'm afraid that people will be " trap" inside the metaverse, our moderm society will enjoy so much the metaverse (life is too hard, metaverse is better) Objectif : make people addict to metaverse and make them the product (so much stimulis : entertainement, shopping, religion and other)
Look at the impact of social media now (tik tok is destroying the "brain" of the news generation - they will be useless, sheep mass consumer witch 0 self control) , just imagine what can the metaverse causes if use for selfish or economic interets.
Maybe I'm too pessimist (got red pills by our economic reality - black rock, Davos, tik tok, politic...), I love VR but if Meta succeeds, another generation can be doom and will be useless.
Can't wait that's why I'm buying meta stock
VR,AR, Metaverse,.. are always going to be a part of life, not the replacement of reality.
If we forget that phones exists and we travel back to the 1980s, we would ask that person, who's standing alone at the corner, talking to a large black brick, why he's standing there alone.
That person who's calling someone doesn't feel trapped or cares that he's hearing a simulated voice of the person he wants to call..
Imagine living in a simulation and moving into another simulation within the simulation.
Anybody who plays mmo games is familiar with the metaverse. I think it's strange that these companies are acting as though the metaverse is something brand new, and fail to mention virtual worlds like Second Life and Entropia Universe.
To be meta or larger than life it would need to include love and the real reward of helping other people in real life and being helped. Metaverse and love do not interact.
Phenomena is an illusion. What we learn in this world that is important is not making new ways of experiencing the world. What makes us better people is learning to forgive others and ourselves and using that opening of ourselves to share our greater capacity to be kind.
I still prefer to escape reality by reading good books.
I don't think I'll ever subscribed to any sort of Metaverse platform.
The thing that I'm really excited about when it comes to this is being able to play WOW in virtual reality.
Stop trying to convince people what a metaverse is because everything said is not "the metaverse." its a fictional term created in Snow Crash for the internet itself.
1) its not a place.
2) its not a game or website,
3) its not crypto or NFTS
4) its not controlled by anyone one company,
5) its accessible by everyone with a means to connect to it.
That's the internet. Deal with it.
This is so manipulative i don't even know where to start. People didnt evolve to touch 2d glass screens and even less carying 2 pounds of gear on their heads and seeing silly avatars. I think humanity realised that human contact, real face to face dialogue, real handshakes and hugs not gif reactions is the healthy way to live. We need to heal because social media already made us mentally ill. Humans can't be just data on a server, or sitting on a couch mindfucked with a vr headset. I'm unsubscribing.
Comments like yours gives me hope in humanity. Thanks 😊
Second Life was an early metaverse. It all went south when gambling was banned on it.
"And so the only way to contend with that is to be smart." Then we're screwed, lol. Because collectively we are definitely not "smart".
did i just watch an ad? explained as if i am supposed to not know everything about it just to be ready to buy an access to it in the future
This is all marvelous, but will it work on a dead, lifeless planet Earth? The climate catastrophe is currently more of a reality than the metaverse.
Technological advances are the cause of the climate catastrophe... cloud seeding , GMOs, pesticides, environmental toxins, weather warfare, etc. Our devastations of now, are repercussions of smarty pants oopsies of the past. Stop playing god is the solution.
Nah, it's VR and just a novelty. As much as this guy wants it to be more, it's just not. But he has to say all of that stuff b'c of his position. Which, incidentally, if you have to say that much stuff about it and sell people on it, then it's not that great to begin with. Much like the Wii, it will be hyped and people will say 'oh this is kinda neat', then it will be dropped. If augmented reality was a flop, why would a fully-digital 'metaverse' have any hope for survival - especially since people don't trust Facebook and it's becoming another MySpace?
The most important thing to remember is that those in the real world control the digital one and if you place yourself in it, you allow yourself to be controlled by someone else's whims. The metaverse isn't freedom, isn't freeing and isn't the utopian panacea that's it's being painted as. It's just the opposite.
By the time I started to watch this it was posted 14 minutes ago....
Thought this was the multiverse not another scheme to get me to spend money
Any metaverse has to be optional, verifiable and thus 'owned by the citizens'. No other model will end up providing true value.
Anything 'virtual' is by definition anti-human. Climb that bloody mountain yourself: prepare, get set back, prepare harder and smarter then do. The human ego is always a problem.
I'm still not enthusiastic about metaverse stuff. I can see it as a learning tool, so that's relatable to me. I'm a social introvert, so I don't really see me going into the metaverse to do things and go places by myself, when I already do that in the real world.
to assume there wont be single-person experiences is fully absurd. its just that humanity is largely social
This video should be the showcase for psuedo-intellect.
So its like 3d movies. You tried hard but it's tomato disguised as tomato. And it's gonna die like 3d movies in tvs did.
I won't go virtual like leaving my physical experience to a digital one, i would really like to be in reality than this.
This video is actually really cringey. This guy is such a techbro. The Metaverse will revolutionize nothing. Human behavior will remain exactly the same. Peopl will continue to indulge in their vices, only now without limits.
I heard flying cars in the 1980s, I hear every car would be self driving by 2010 and I heard bitcoin would used everywhere by 2020. These predictions are always way off. Even if they are technically possible in a technology sense the government can't legislate fast enough or good enough. You can read the book "Play Money" from 2007 that illustrates some of the problems, the authors goal was to make money selling virtual products in a game. How was he taxed, when creating such virtual products, the IRS still doesn't handle this virtual world very well.
sooo… it’s basically real life but on the internet? did anyone ask for more internet in their lives? idk i think we all desperately need some sun, some trees and a swim in some water :)
Whether it consists of virtual worlds or augmented reality technology, metaverse remains a gateway to more complex experience justifying the ultimate question of who will be entitled to adopt to the other humans to technology or vice-versa,mind-blowing stuff 😵💫🥳🚀
Are we in the meta verse
Metaverse, Simply & Honestly :
Capitalism recognized that a finite world needs an infinite resource for continual growth, which can also be artificially restricted for controlled scarcity.
What better product/land/service/amusement than one which costs only server space & nominal electricity, yet can yield unimaginable profit margin?
The public perception of value, thus investment of real life funds, relies on luring enough of the population into participating. They will make it difficult to avoid too, by shifting other means of engagement & transaction into this new medium. But most people *will* go willingly (marketing/fomo/Joneses/etc).
TLDR; greed. It's just more greed.
Wow that robot almost seemed lifelike
The ULTIMATE metaverse is called real life which uses atoms instead of 1's and 0's.
Why create a sub-par metaverse that cannot compare to real life?
My question is: why?
Why do we feel the need to transfer everything into a digital world instead of trying to make the real world a better place? Why do we need to spend trillions in creating a coherent, complete and harmonious Digital world instead of spending these Money into transforming the real world into such a place? If we are talking about creating a virtual Paradise, that will never suffice unless we'll all be transferred there permanently. But if we do that, who will stay behind to run the real world? Take care of our own physical bodies?
Sounds very dystopian
The "metaverse" is like that social media site that was hot for years, but loses popularity because of all the ads and monetization and people move to the next big thing with less annoying ads. Only the "metaverse" just skips that whole phase of being trendy and not overbearing with ads.
It's just going to be a bunch of people trying to sell shit people don't need to other people selling shit people don't need at this rate lol. It's just rehashed ideas we already have, being done better outside of the "metaverse" in a less complicated and more convenient way.
9:34 "We should also think of a world filled with sensors, scanning cameras, projection cameras, to allow us to be actively in the Metaverse."
Then imagine having Facebook/Meta being the frontman of this "new" era of technology, with their squeaky clean, spotless, flawless, perfect track record involving user data and user privacy (/s obviously). Bye bye privacy.
People will be / are already enraged if there's cameras at every corner of the street just to thwart CRIMES, but somehow you expect people to be okay with the installation of cameras and sensors for the purposes of the Metaverse? What a pitch.
Don’t really get the “if you build it they will come” mentality. Said another way… if you had never heard of carpentry before and I put a hammer in your hand, would you automatically conclude that it’s made for building? It’s not technology that determines the use. Mankind has a need and finds a way to solve it. All of the use cases presented here other than education and medical science feel cringy
I still don't feel like I have any real understanding of what the metaverse is outside of a place to play games and socialize...
Nice more ways to distance each other in real life and treat people like they are expendable.
I think about Star Trek's holodecks and think, 'wtf' why do people feel the need to do that... oh they don't it was just a made up story
The Metaverse has the potential to revolutionize education by providing an immersive and interactive learning experience. With its limitless possibilities for exploration and collaboration, the Metaverse is set to transform the traditional classroom setting and open up new avenues for learning and innovation. As we enter a new era of technology and education, the Metaverse is an exciting and promising development that holds great promise for learners and educators alike.
Seems like a pitch for investors to me...
A fair assessment: a well-written and slickly-produced piece of content marketing.
Sure. I'll pop into a holodeck now and again but there's no way that Ready Player One is that interesting.
I remember well getting onto the "internet" in 1989 and seeing its value. This? Only for a few speciality needs and then being a liability to billions of others in our society.
How can you be absolutely sure of who one is interactive with? If deep fakes can be generated by AI for common videos, how can one avoid falsification in the metaverse environment ?
Waffles*Waffles*Waffles
Yes
Pure sophistry.
Star Citizen will be the first step into the metaverse.
The tech they are working on won't just be groundbreaking for games.
Still no idea what metaverse is after watching this