Excellent job staying impartial. My personal knee jerk reaction to this concept was something along the lines of "interesting, but I'll never give Facebook (by any other name either) the kind of access to my life that this would require. Overall excellent presentation and explanation of the concept.
One thing I see missing from this discussion is privacy. It seems as though our thoughts and dreams might be a bastion of privacy that would be breached in the world you describe. Is that something we are ready to do? I can see from a teaching standpoint the attractiveness of many things you describe. At the same time, I wonder how much more interaction both students and instructors are ready to deal with.
Privacy is one thing, security is another... Mankind will always have those people who would seek to invade someone else's mind in search of blackmail, industrial espionage, or some other kind of leverage. This, in my mind would be akin to a form of rape, where it would be a forced mental invasion, rather than a sexual one.
@@Tyneras "I won't consider it acceptable until corporations treat personal information like a dangerous and expensive liability: something they get rid of as quickly as possible." I have never read a better definition of what we need to change. Well done!
Ironically for something called "Explaining the Future", the suit-and-tie talking-at-the-podium-with-a-microphone format feels rather nostalgic. Which I think makes it a good choice.
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Yes, it gives a rather a nostalgic feel from when humans bothered about their appearance. I really enjoyed the suit-and-tie, podium and microphone setting giving a great presentation explaining the future. It was marvellous! :) Very refreshing from all the silliness I have seen lately.
Fantastic video. Since your video, in my opinion, is grounded in ‘common sense,’ you’re ahead of the curve. Plus, I think you are one of the people that these corporate execs should listen to. Considering the first part of your video, it was not good that Zuck did not acknowledge those that have already addressed much of this information. Great content!
When Mark says, "we'll be able to express ourselves", he means, we will be able to do so as long as the opinions expressed are opinions the machine(big tech, big meds, big news media and big government) agrees with.
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Sad, but true. Expressing ourselves freely is something that doesn't belong to the future but to the past.
Interesting subject, well presented, Chris. I'm glad I won't be around long enough to see it! Zuckerberg did fail to mention privacy, and also what the bottom line for him is. You can bet your life all of this will mean that he can garner ever increasing amounts of your cash.
Who owns the Internet is the the same kind of question. I hope that everyone will own their stuff - meaning their avatar, their house, their things, but not shared spaces. It should be possibly decentralized. I do think that the Metaverse will gradually become true, but it won't be BIG earlier than the 2040s. People will probably stick to foldable smartphones and tablets for the near future, but increasingly augmented with AI. Rendering high-definition 16K per eye VR worlds on standalone headsets is much too much for 2020s technology.
Glad to see you posting here again. Looking forward to upcoming episodes. I tend to agree that ubiquitous computing will be with us for a long time to come. As we've seen in the past couple of years, people are very reluctant to get things injected into them, so the neural interface is going to have many challenges, if it ever does become a reality.
Great Video, brilliant content. What I worry about is when big companies bring ideas like this, trick us into becoming a financial commodity of theirs. It's sad to think mankind will end up in 'The Matrix'.
Great video. Interesting learning about the history and past predictions. I definitely think that ubiquitous computing will be more prominent in the short term. I'm definitely more looking forward to AR than the metaverse. Ideally, I would like to use the internet to aid my experience of reality, not escape from it. It's possible to do that now, but the metaverse does seem like it would be a new paradigm. I view Zuckerberg as a malevolent actor, and cannot help but think this might be more of a scheme to take advantage of people who want to escape to further line his own pockets.
Sounds exactly like "Second Life" which has been around for decades so Mark has lots of technology there to work with and learn from. Thank you so much for your insight. CES 2022 would be a great place to research for February content Chris.
Absolutely BRILLIANT. This (your presentation) is my dream of what TH-cam can achieve. One in the eye for the TikTok/instagram 'fast brain food' style... 30 minute lecture on a truly interesting subject, perfectly delivered in terms of style and content. So much to think about and I can't wait for January 1st now. Thanks so much for doing this and sharing freely with us all in the spirit of open internet. (I'm not even going to start commenting on the actual content... much to think about on that score and comments isn't the best place for such 'conversations')
Thanks for this. It it good to know that you appreciate my decision to go in the opposite direction here on TH-cam -- away from shorts, and towards single-take, long-form content.
@@ExplainingTheFuture Totally appreciated. The technology may not encourage it, but it allows for this method and I wish more people would take it up. Separates the men from the boys in terms of those who can actually deliver a lecture, which you most definitely can. I'd say its a victory for substance over style, but the style's great too!
Excellent presentation! I hope you will be able to share many more in the years to come. My (limited) understanding of how human brains work is that each brain may be quite differently organized than all others. So, building an interface to share thoughts may not be possible.
Thank You very much. I studied topics in higher level Mathematics, Technology and I.T, not continuously,from the 1970's through to the 1990's. From my viewpoint ''Explaining The Future'' is Fascinating and Scary at the same time. It seems to herald a Revolution which could significantly change even how we exist from day to day. We need to, IMHO, decide how far and how quickly we proceed along this path if we we are allowed the opportunities to do so. In addition the vast majority of us , me included , will be dimly aware of this unless we have people like your good self to explain the steps and to distinguish the achievable possibilities from self-serving marketing hype. Thank you for trying to do this for us.
The thing is that the metaverse is so easy to screw up as an idea, just a simple UX malfunction / oversight would kill it, the perfect idea is some open source network where EVERY object is a program itself interacting with the open source framework and other programs think of a “paper sheet” as a program where has some functionalities in the metaverse, it can be written it can be set on a wall etc, the interactions between the objects ( or programs ) is what makes or breaks the metaverse , if they have to develop id hope they just copy exactly what ready player one has done in the movie, also i think VR is born without a future, AR is where its at, argumentations of life thats what makes something useful, great video btw!
Suit and tie - not all will change. Great lecture with good humour , learnt a lot - government will attack internet gaming as too many people will be impoverished and become a social burden. Government will also ban cryptocurrency as China has - a national currency makes us part of a team even if we hate our team mates. Clearly, some nations will use AI etc against their own people and against other nations and their people. China,Russia,Israel come to mind as active players. However the 1956 partnership known as Five Eyes is spending a fortune keeping tabs on what other nations are doing and likely keeping their powder dry on their own offensive capabilities. However, countries not using Latin script but having many speakers of English probably have a natural protection to the depth of harm that can be done to them.
One thing that occurred to me with your final thought was the absolute probability for abuse and as we have seen already the deliberate misinformation campaigns. The Q-verse is an amazing example of just how far off the deep end some will wonder.
A very thought provoking presentation on the Metaverse Chris. Wearing a VR headset can make some people sick, we rely so much on spatial awareness to enable us to function, I've worked with people who are hearing impaired that explain without a hearing aid their balance suffers! You mention as a gaming platform, can you imagine the scenario of being in a first person shooter game where it's so realistic, witnessing the absolute horror of killing other players in a conflict and what it could do to them, there are people now who can't differentiate between fact and fiction. There would have to be systems in place to protect everyone's safety i.e being hacked whilst using the software, or state players who could harvest thoughts, secrets or dreams to use as a weapon or torture, HG Wells 1984 anyone. Me I'll just stick to reality oh and have a nice conversation over dinner with family or friends, no smart phones allowed :)
Second Life and hundreds of other similar virtual worlds still exist. They aren't quite as popular as they used to be, but they're srill running, and have done for nearly 20 years, Sadly, the backend hasn't really kept up with technology so they are less immersive and less attractive than they could be.
@@thehoeslaper I was wondering about that... People had to have gotten "addicted" to it, add in a modern high tech VR headset I could see it being even easier to want to stay online. I also wonder about relationships and birth rates if something like this gets big, especially VR school, and remote work... If everyone is at home getting food delivered and interacting online, how many relationships will form? Or not form? You already don't see kids outside playing because they're all inside playing games with a headset on talking to online friends, not neighborhood friends.
Great, all the BS of Facebook, but more immersive... I feel like term metaverse is just the same BS market speak that Realtors use when they name a neighborhood SoBo or NoBo or whatever variation they come up with to gentrify a warehouse district. I'm sure Zuk wants to sell that new high dollar space in MeVe. Location, location, location...
I absolutely absolutely love this new format! I look forward to seeing what you make going forward. That's my review of your presentation I absolutely love it However something that absolutely terrifies me is a 3D World that is OWNED by Facebook. The internet works as well as it does because no one company OWNS the internet, there is no one computer to unplug and we lose the internet. Imagine the ways Facebook can (and I would argue WILL) abuse it. Imagine going to a business meeting and going to the Metaverse Shop and your boss yells at you for buying the blue one and not the red one because Facebook snitched
Thanks for your kind feedback, appreciated. And I can only agree on your Facebook ownership point. But we already allow Microsoft to own the interface most people use on a computer . . .
@@ExplainingTheFuture That's true but we also have options such as Linux and MacOS As well as not having to just use Microsoft Apps such as Office, Edge, and Paint. Meta/Facebook wants to own this Metaverse and they say "Oh we wanna keep it open" but how much of Meta/Facebook apps are Open Source right now?
@@ExplainingTheFuture Respectfully, I must clarify a point. Most people who use a computer are using a smartphone (computer). Thus the main interface used by ALL users are web-browsers (& mobile apps are a 2nd). Microsoft is a tiny provider of both. Google's Android OS and Chrome browser are on a majority of smartphones. So your point does apply to Google.
@@keep-ukraine-free I accept your point to some extent, a lot of people do use a smartphone as their only computer. But at work and in education PCs and laptops dominate. And a lot of people do use a PCs or laptops at home. Just looking at my own stats for ExplainingComputers over the past year (to get a large data sample), 49.2% of video views were made on a computer (ie PC or laptop), compared to 31.8% on a smartphone, 6.4% on a tablet, and 12.5% on a TV. And this is for video consumption. So your contention that "most people who use a computer are using a smartphone" I don't think is supported by reality. :)
Hi Chris. I subscribed to this channel last week and have been going through the earlier videos and thought how chilling (because of accuracy) some of your predictions have been e.g working from home using computers. Twelve or so years ago, it just wasn't a thing so no one would have really thought about that, certainly in the context of an alternative workspace during a pandemic (which you predicted also) . Great work ! Also I'm not an academic so appreciate you pitching it at the right level for us average people ! 🙂👍
There are many things you presented that are worth thinking about, and I wanted to call out just one: the idea that we "visit" web pages and therefore we already have a sense of presence on the web. This is a wonderful observation, and just one of many in your video. Thank you, and best wishes!
My primary concern with the growing interconnectedness of technology with biology is the current observable tendency of unscrupulous individuals to take advantage of - or simply vandalize - other people's data. Unless there is a massive shift in detection of - and punishment for - technological abuse of others, we will never be able to enjoy technology without constant fear of abuse (which empowers a whole other industry based on separating us from our assets in exchange for providing us with the illusion of protection).
As for me, I am run, run away from all things Zuck. Most are sheep and gladly give everything away......some say Neanderthal, ok suits me fine....run run away (how did Monty Python know this back in the 70"s?)
Brain-Computer Interface? Oh, like hell will I let Zuckerberg have access to my brain! And IMHO, that's where the whole Metaverse thing falls down. The company doing it, (by any name), is not trustworthy. I won't get into all that, but we know why they've been in the news lately. Myself, I hope they go the way of Myspace and LiveJournal; niche players, barely holding on.
The best bet for a “meta verse” would be to develop an application for Android and iOS and make a cheap Google cardboard based cloth head mounted display using Bluetooth mouse+keyboard for input. Similar to Samsung’s “Gear VR” but cheap enough for most users to afford
I have a strong feeling that If God grants life 15 years from now (today 18th-Jan-2022). This video will be a gem in the recounting of future prospects of tech. Thanks Christopher
Not sure why I flinch so bad seeing you hold a microphone...? Great content though. I often discuss this topic with my grandkids. I picture the metaverse, ( this version that Zuckerberg is trying to stuff down our throats, while implying that he thought of it...) as an invasive, unpleasant version of an extreme nerd's life... not unlike the episodes of South Park when the boys retreat into the basement, ( for an unhealthy period of time ), to battle a World of Warcraft character. Whether it's a body suit, BCI or a VR headset... personal hygiene and food, not to mention a tangible means of income, would put off all but the most cringe-worthy, basement dwelling, mommy-supported humans. I'm sure that the peripheral economy will sell them a sensory suit with a diaper built in... but... Yuck... I'll pass on the metaverse. I am however, anxious to see more robots made to take care of the crushing number of us that are stumbling into our old age... Humans won't be doing it.... Perhaps a 360 deg., wrap-around screen for gaming will suffice?
Really a thought provoking talk. I watched the video couple times and came up several concepts to integrate into my own research and teaching. Problems with ease of use and ease of integration hampered efforts with platforms like Second Life for teaching at my institution. I think that the Neuromancer (Gibson)/Matrix concept of the metaverse isn't particularly helpful or feasible at this point (like you said). Neil Stephenson's "metaverse" (origin of the term) or an augmented ubiquitous environment as described by Vernor Vinge, author and professor of CS, is a more likely route for digital reality in the medium term. Again, great job on these. I hope you look at AR/MR at some point on one of your channels.
A wonderful presentation...and I really like the new format! Yes Facebook has out lived its usefulness and Mr Zuckerberg is scrambling to keep his cash-cow motivated...
So people that very likely spend too much time on line will spend their lives within it. I wonder what the impact of that will be on real human relationships. Having worked from home for 2 years its pretty clear that work relationships are rapidly becoming wholly transactional. Missing the nuance of face to face encounters.
Haha, here in Silicon Valley it seems designers and marketers are r e a l l y excited about the metaverse and the engineers are doing a collective wtf. I think you're pretty spot on with there being some kind of gaming platform/marketplace and I think probably well before 10 years time. It will be second life, hopefully with some common formats/standards, but also with lots of grifting and scamming. As always, the big problems are not technical, but rather the same old things that have dogged humanity for centuries. Look how well FB, news, and other online entities are doing at controlling disinformation, system gaming, and radicalization on the current platforms.
14:55m An incredibly important original theory - why do you think there are not a million views? Just takes / worth a lot of thought. I am looking forward to my third try.
27:00 Just imagine: the State, current and prospective employers, advertisers, even the co-worker with objectionable hygiene/sense of humour/politics/fetishes* knowing precisely what you're thinking - and have ever thought - each and every moment. What could possibly wrong...? [*delete as appropriate]
Thank you so for making this well made and valuable video, my personal opinion about metaverse we could not retain our privacy anymore, not one bit back than we could find some ways about enhance our privacy, yet with metaverse every single bit of data could be taken and used against us... Also new technologies about healthcare is truly exciting, Are we going to see a new video about this topic? With Kind and Best Regards
I was thinking the exact same thing. It’s like Zuckerberg didn’t do any research into how 3-D failed in the 90s particularly VR. Motion sickness is real and there are a very large amount of people who will not be able to use these headsets.
I'm happy I won't see that cyborg-illusion. The great question, THE question is what's the purpose of human little life, not how to entangle it more and more with the finite experiences of the body.
Form follows function. If our objective is to pool our memories and cognition to more quickly advance our understanding of our environment, then any technology that enables that will naturally eventually prevail. Welcome to our cyborg overlords. Its a shame that in the meantime other less helpful stuff will be done with the technology.
Very interesting and insightful video! Re; Neural links, even after decades of neuroscience we are not even on the verge of whole brain understanding! The human brain is not a static system of connections. The brain is constantly being remodelled, the dendrites which receive the neurotransmitters from other neurons, growing new branches and changing connections to other neurons, sometimes within hours. Also the role of brain glial cells (of which there are several types) further complicates matters affecting neurotransmission and synaptic connections. I doubt that neural links will ever progress past a rudimentary level, thank goodness in my opinion.
Sony Computer Entertainment tried something similar with "Playstation Home" on the PS3 back in 2008 ... it was quite good for its time but they killed it off in 2015. They had virtual concerts, games, clubhouses etc. with integrated in-world game launches. It was a good concept but they failed to maintain delivery of meaningful content. As technology and more importantly the number of content creators has flourished, it might take off in an open marketplace much like 2nd life. Hard to tell, although I certainly don't want to expose my neurons to a company of such shady business practices.
Metaverse could be a progression from a 2D media to a more immersive 3D media. But do we need this technology? There are many other problems humanity is facing. Why are these rich people investing in these useless technology?
Thank you for an enlightening presentation. I for one will jump headfirst into the Metaverse. Can’t wait for the arrival of the neural interlink. Best wishes.
The last video you've posted was, as of 5th December 2021 was... ...2 years ago? Holy moly! 😜 Silly remarks aside, I like this approach to the channel (longer videos with a presentation style that's similar to your main channel but with a 'live speaker' theme). It also serves well as a 'mini podcast' in case you're the sort that likes to listen to videos in the background, like myself, or watch videos that don't feel like they finish too quickly (also me). In short: I approve, dearly.
Hmmm, wearing an implant in my brain so I can connect to someone else via a computer has me worried ! What if you were trying to connect to a friend and dialled the wrong number ? You could find yourself connected mentally to a politician and have all of your consciousness sucked into the vacuum on the other end of the connection 🤣 I think any Cybernetic work will be based on medical needs for the immediate future and Robotics will really kick along as we need to develop machines to build / repair things like space stations and bases on the moon and mars .
The metaverse is the sameas Web 3.0 in my mind. Buzzwords with no real meaning other than it is a soundbite or headline fillers. The next level of human conciousness is not faffing around with avatars in a VR enviroment.
Fascinating, and I see it as a progress report on my prediction from 40 years ago that humanity will one day transition from a carbon-based to a silicone-based life form. Thanks.
Thanks fot sharing your ideas, the last part of the video made me think of the Borg in the Star Trek series. Humans will become Borg sometime in the future.
makes me wonder if Bill Gates has dropped the ball or if he has stuff working in the background for minecraft that I believe he bought for this very thing, as it is fully interactive, and decentralized (anyone can set up their own server) and moddable so you can ad the ability for players to insert things like billboards that you can display and interact with webpages and even watch youtube videos in, as well as talk to people that are near you virtually with out everyone on the server being heard making it hard to hear someone, as well as it being 3D sound (ie they move to your left while talking and you now hear them in your left ear as well as walking further they get quieter and quieter the further they get, and items in the world effect the sound too, like walls dampening that sound level even faster. Want more than blocks, look at architectcraft and lycanites mobs as they incorporate lots of various angles in the mobs, and architectcraft adds rounded objects like round pillars and archways ect, (slopes upgrade, as slopes just gave you angled blocks for sooth pyramids and smoother hills) someone puts a webcam option where your face appears on the face of the character as it being like a screen they then can see your emotion while talking, and each build with its interaction can offer a real world shop portal in that virtual environment, and it is possible to make a single server with a cluster network that can handle millions of users exploring and interacting with a world 7 times larger than the earth, one thing I have not tried and want to, is the educational edition of minecraft where you can do chemistry and electronics inside the game learning about them via simulation. that and the very basic method while it feels odd to someone first seeing it like lego block world, you get used to it quickly and don't even notice it, and the placement and building or modifying a whole world to your taste is easy enough for anyone to do, unlike what ever that last virtual world used to have you do to make and import things into it. (also you grind real time in the game doing instead of just replicating a thing you made over and over so it diminishes the value on them vs the builds and creations in a minecraft world. though there are mods to copy and paste the builds not only across that world but across servers, too, (and mods to allow just teleporting from one server to another carrying your belongings too. the servers just all have to share the same mod to allow them to interact like this. )
James P. Hogan's "Giants' Star" (1981, third in the "Giants" series) features an interstellar communication system that is completely immersive VR/AR via nerve induction.
This is very thorough analysis. Also for the same reasons is why when I see both AR and VR - I always bet Augmented Reality. Actually I think "Mixed Reality" is what really is the good term, just some companies started to use the term I also used and they do it a bit differently... But TL;DR: "Enhancing what exists" is always winning over "building everything from scratch" - at least until we totally become cyborg people.
Ueh chips in the brain, sounds like something that should never happen to me, but I have no doubt you're right (if this universe carries on for enough time).
I truly enjoyed this video, Chris. Lots of deep matters to consider about the future of humans and the digital "world". Love the audacity of Barnatt's Law--I think you are spot on, and congrats for being the first to articulate it. I'm very glad you are giving this channel such an interesting and relevant reboot. Yes, those prior 3D videos are impressive, but I'd much rather have the relaxed and witty personal Chris talk to me from a podium with a mic in his hand. Just what this viewer needed from this channel after two crazy pandemic years. Wherever that inspiration came from, I'm glad you heeded it, and I'm stoked to see the next three videos in this series. Oh, and you look so nice in a suit! Finally, thanks for not doing mid-roll ads. I always let your pre and post ads run to completion and hope that makes up a bit for the revenue you lose. If you do need to make a change someday to run those ads, I will still be a faithful viewer. Stay well and enjoy your work.
I like cool tech as much as any other guy, but this VR thing is not something we need. There are so many other areas where existing technology could vastly improve quality of life, but ofter human factor gets in a way. I'd rather see companies trying to find solutions to battle that, instead of bringing fancy futuristic things in our lives to earn money and take more control. I'd like us to stop for a moment and make the most of the technology we already have, before pouring even more work and resources in R&D of something we may never need.
Countries need to enact new laws to make internet companies accountable legally. Rule 230 is a US law that allows them to do whatever they want, it needs to be repealed.
Very true. And I think one reason that Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to transition into a Metaverse company is that he knows the days of social media in its current form is limited, as laws will arrive now sooner rather than later.
This has already been done since at least 2008 in Second Life, sans VR and AR. It has the avatars, online currency/marketplace that Zuck is describing.
@@RhizometricReality The Metaverse as he sees it will never come to be. The future platforms as always will be built by the users that use that platform.
While we are a billionaire with wife and children all living happily in the metaverse our bodies are shrivelling away in a pod and are disposed of without achieving anything in the real world.
I think this has been occuring some time already and VRChat has already covered a lot of what it is... What is the outcome of VRChat? Low retention rates.
I found this style of video rather refreshing and interesting, it almost had a tomorrows world vide to it. I like hearing about the possibilities of where computers will go in the near and far future. Will done for a great video and I hope this becomes a permanent thing that you do.
In 10 or 20 years time, people will watch Mark Zuckerberg's keynote presentation on VR and howl with laughter. The same way I've watched videos from the early 90's of people prophesising about the "information superhighway". Elements of the 90's videos have turned out to be correct but their visions of the future always seem packaged up in 90's looking technology. And it's always this way; the computers in Star Trek look like a mainframe computer from the 1960s.
As somebody for whom even haptic feedback in videogames is too intrusive, I don't know how I feel about this whole thing with its VR and brain interface implications. I think the potential dangers of an isolated and run down real life while at the same time people would be jacked in an idealised and expensive digital existence should be pointed out.
An excellent presentation Christopher. I clearly remember my experience of disorientation and nausea from 3D Television. It was a terrible experience for me. I will remain centered in the present, experiencing reality without adopting these proposed technological enhancements.
Bravo! I like what you're doing. I'm now going to be watching ETF much more frequently than I have in the past. I'm already a frequent viewer/subscriber of EC and also subscribe to ETF, but just having been viewing the latter as much as the former. Keep up the great work, CB.
What a great (re)start to the channel! It really feels like you're actually having a good bit of fun doing it, too, so it's quite pleasant to watch. I have some mixed feelings about Metaverse. Or I guess I should say, Meta/Facebook. I quite like the idea of Metaverse, but unfortunately I'm just not comfortable with the company behind it. I expect that even if it takes off, and VR becomes extremely comfortable and highly immersive, I probably won't get too involved. I guess if we could say Metaverse is like Microsoft Windows, I'm waiting for someone to make Linux. I think you're right though, that Metaverse probably will become big for gaming. I don't suppose it'll be so big for business since, as you said, many people just can't use it comfortably. Why be uncomfortable in VR when you can just as well voice and video chat? But for those who can, VR definitely offers some great gaming potential. As for BCI's, that's been my dream for decades. I remember trying something some 15 years ago, some kind of headband like a super cheap EEG, to read brain activity to control my computer. Either it didn't work, or I never figured it out. It would've been one way communication had it worked anyways, oh well. Still, if BCI technology were safe, comfortable and inexpensive, I'd be one of the first to give it a go. I'd only be concerned with privacy and ownership of course. I'd hope the whole system would belong to me just like my computer belongs to me, and only does what I want it do and isn't spying on my mind for the benefit of some big company. Letting someone enter the privacy of your mind and directly access your thoughts or feelings or intentions, is an enormously huge matter of trust, ya know? Still, the possibilities are very appealing. What I'd give to just share my dreams with people instead of having to type up lengthy descriptions of what happened while I slept... or what it might allow people to accomplish in psychotherapy if patient and doctor can more directly experience eachother's minds. Very exciting stuff!
the Quest 1 & 2, both have HAND TRACKING,, using the inside out camera tracking,, Many games and apps make use of it all ready Maybe you should get a Quest,, and "... have a go",, its good fun
Yes, I'm aware that the Quest 1 and 2 have hand tracking, but nothing like the Meta wrist neural interface delivers (where you can actually type). You are right, I must get an Oculus and experiment! :)
Very interesting presentation. I like how you took the time to place the Meta development in historical context. That's not something we see often in this age of shrinking attention spans.
Excelent video. It feels like a natural extension of Explaining Computers (that's how I got here). Thank you Christopher for your amazing content. Greetings from Chile
Love the presentation set up. I watched it with some of my older kids and they found it interesting. As an American, I liked hearing you say “ain’t”. For a moment I thought you were going to go full “Texan” for us! Anyway great job. I’m looking forward to next month’s video!
Excellent job staying impartial. My personal knee jerk reaction to this concept was something along the lines of "interesting, but I'll never give Facebook (by any other name either) the kind of access to my life that this would require. Overall excellent presentation and explanation of the concept.
One thing I see missing from this discussion is privacy. It seems as though our thoughts and dreams might be a bastion of privacy that would be breached in the world you describe. Is that something we are ready to do?
I can see from a teaching standpoint the attractiveness of many things you describe. At the same time, I wonder how much more interaction both students and instructors are ready to deal with.
Privacy is one thing, security is another... Mankind will always have those people who would seek to invade someone else's mind in search of blackmail, industrial espionage, or some other kind of leverage. This, in my mind would be akin to a form of rape, where it would be a forced mental invasion, rather than
a sexual one.
@@Tyneras "I won't consider it acceptable until corporations treat personal information like a dangerous and expensive liability: something they get rid of as quickly as possible."
I have never read a better definition of what we need to change. Well done!
I cant wait for the advertising in our dreams......mine are a bit boring at the moment.
@@MrSlapdash243 If you yearn for advertising in our dreams... wait until the telemarketers invade our dreams.
Ironically for something called "Explaining the Future", the suit-and-tie talking-at-the-podium-with-a-microphone format feels rather nostalgic. Which I think makes it a good choice.
Yes, it gives a rather a nostalgic feel from when humans bothered about their appearance. I really enjoyed the suit-and-tie, podium and microphone setting giving a great presentation explaining the future. It was marvellous! :) Very refreshing from all the silliness I have seen lately.
That's the point. Chris wanted to do "simple" videos monthly where is basically a live recording of a conference style talk
Fantastic video. Since your video, in my opinion, is grounded in ‘common sense,’ you’re ahead of the curve. Plus, I think you are one of the people that these corporate execs should listen to. Considering the first part of your video, it was not good that Zuck did not acknowledge those that have already addressed much of this information. Great content!
When Mark says, "we'll be able to express ourselves", he means, we will be able to do so as long as the opinions expressed are opinions the machine(big tech, big meds, big news media and big government) agrees with.
Sad, but true. Expressing ourselves freely is something that doesn't belong to the future but to the past.
Interesting subject, well presented, Chris. I'm glad I won't be around long enough to see it! Zuckerberg did fail to mention privacy, and also what the bottom line for him is. You can bet your life all of this will mean that he can garner ever increasing amounts of your cash.
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Problem:
Who owns the Metaverse? ... is the same entity(ies) who will own your online existence, and by extension, your work-life ... essentially you.
Their dream isn't Metaverse, it's owning the Universe.
Who owns the Internet is the the same kind of question. I hope that everyone will own their stuff - meaning their avatar, their house, their things, but not shared spaces. It should be possibly decentralized. I do think that the Metaverse will gradually become true, but it won't be BIG earlier than the 2040s. People will probably stick to foldable smartphones and tablets for the near future, but increasingly augmented with AI. Rendering high-definition 16K per eye VR worlds on standalone headsets is much too much for 2020s technology.
Glad to see you posting here again. Looking forward to upcoming episodes. I tend to agree that ubiquitous computing will be with us for a long time to come. As we've seen in the past couple of years, people are very reluctant to get things injected into them, so the neural interface is going to have many challenges, if it ever does become a reality.
Great Video, brilliant content. What I worry about is when big companies bring ideas like this, trick us into becoming a financial commodity of theirs. It's sad to think mankind will end up in 'The Matrix'.
Great video. Interesting learning about the history and past predictions. I definitely think that ubiquitous computing will be more prominent in the short term. I'm definitely more looking forward to AR than the metaverse. Ideally, I would like to use the internet to aid my experience of reality, not escape from it. It's possible to do that now, but the metaverse does seem like it would be a new paradigm. I view Zuckerberg as a malevolent actor, and cannot help but think this might be more of a scheme to take advantage of people who want to escape to further line his own pockets.
Sounds exactly like "Second Life" which has been around for decades so Mark has lots of technology there to work with and learn from. Thank you so much for your insight. CES 2022 would be a great place to research for February content Chris.
Absolutely BRILLIANT. This (your presentation) is my dream of what TH-cam can achieve. One in the eye for the TikTok/instagram 'fast brain food' style... 30 minute lecture on a truly interesting subject, perfectly delivered in terms of style and content. So much to think about and I can't wait for January 1st now. Thanks so much for doing this and sharing freely with us all in the spirit of open internet. (I'm not even going to start commenting on the actual content... much to think about on that score and comments isn't the best place for such 'conversations')
Thanks for this. It it good to know that you appreciate my decision to go in the opposite direction here on TH-cam -- away from shorts, and towards single-take, long-form content.
@@ExplainingTheFuture Totally appreciated. The technology may not encourage it, but it allows for this method and I wish more people would take it up. Separates the men from the boys in terms of those who can actually deliver a lecture, which you most definitely can. I'd say its a victory for substance over style, but the style's great too!
Excellent presentation! I hope you will be able to share many more in the years to come. My (limited) understanding of how human brains work is that each brain may be quite differently organized than all others. So, building an interface to share thoughts may not be possible.
The metaverse will be the enslavement of the human mind
These corporations must be stopped.
Technology must be stolen and taken back into the hands of humanity.
Cannot be owned by the greed of this vile man
Thank You very much. I studied topics in higher level Mathematics, Technology and I.T, not continuously,from the 1970's through to the 1990's. From my viewpoint ''Explaining The Future'' is Fascinating and Scary at the same time. It seems to herald a Revolution which could significantly change even how we exist from day to day. We need to, IMHO, decide how far and how quickly we proceed along this path if we we are allowed the opportunities to do so. In addition the vast majority of us , me included , will be dimly aware of this unless we have people like your good self to explain the steps and to distinguish the achievable possibilities from self-serving marketing hype. Thank you for trying to do this for us.
The thing is that the metaverse is so easy to screw up as an idea, just a simple UX malfunction / oversight would kill it, the perfect idea is some open source network where EVERY object is a program itself interacting with the open source framework and other programs
think of a “paper sheet” as a program where has some functionalities in the metaverse, it can be written it can be set on a wall etc, the interactions between the objects ( or programs ) is what makes or breaks the metaverse , if they have to develop id hope they just copy exactly what ready player one has done in the movie, also i think VR is born without a future, AR is where its at, argumentations of life thats what makes something useful, great video btw!
Suit and tie - not all will change. Great lecture with good humour
, learnt a lot - government will attack internet gaming as too many people will be impoverished and become a social burden. Government will also ban cryptocurrency as China has - a national currency makes us part of a team even if we hate our team mates. Clearly, some nations will use AI etc against their own people and against other nations and their people. China,Russia,Israel come to mind as active players. However the 1956 partnership known as Five Eyes is spending a fortune keeping tabs on what other nations are doing and likely keeping their powder dry on their own offensive capabilities. However, countries not using Latin script but having many speakers of English probably have a natural protection to the depth of harm that can be done to them.
One thing that occurred to me with your final thought was the absolute probability for abuse and as we have seen already the deliberate misinformation campaigns. The Q-verse is an amazing example of just how far off the deep end some will wonder.
A very thought provoking presentation on the Metaverse Chris. Wearing a VR headset can make some people sick, we rely so much on spatial awareness to enable us to function, I've worked with people who are hearing impaired that explain without a hearing aid their balance suffers! You mention as a gaming platform, can you imagine the scenario of being in a first person shooter game where it's so realistic, witnessing the absolute horror of killing other players in a conflict and what it could do to them, there are people now who can't differentiate between fact and fiction. There would have to be systems in place to protect everyone's safety i.e being hacked whilst using the software, or state players who could harvest thoughts, secrets or dreams to use as a weapon or torture, HG Wells 1984 anyone.
Me I'll just stick to reality oh and have a nice conversation over dinner with family or friends, no smart phones allowed :)
Second Life and hundreds of other similar virtual worlds still exist. They aren't quite as popular as they used to be, but they're srill running, and have done for nearly 20 years, Sadly, the backend hasn't really kept up with technology so they are less immersive and less attractive than they could be.
my sister and her husband were way to into 2nd life to the point almost ruined their marriage.
@@thehoeslaper You can NEVER trust someone who plays second life.
@@thehoeslaper I was wondering about that... People had to have gotten "addicted" to it, add in a modern high tech VR headset I could see it being even easier to want to stay online.
I also wonder about relationships and birth rates if something like this gets big, especially VR school, and remote work... If everyone is at home getting food delivered and interacting online, how many relationships will form? Or not form?
You already don't see kids outside playing because they're all inside playing games with a headset on talking to online friends, not neighborhood friends.
I don't think that living in "ready player one" under a highly depressive New World Order is anything I support
Great, all the BS of Facebook, but more immersive...
I feel like term metaverse is just the same BS market speak that Realtors use when they name a neighborhood SoBo or NoBo or whatever variation they come up with to gentrify a warehouse district.
I'm sure Zuk wants to sell that new high dollar space in MeVe.
Location, location, location...
VR will never be a daily part of life. in fact, humans are starting to move in the opposite direction to natural reality. VR is a fad
You did a great job presenting this. Liked your "law" too, there is still a way to go, some important hurdles.
I absolutely absolutely love this new format! I look forward to seeing what you make going forward.
That's my review of your presentation I absolutely love it
However something that absolutely terrifies me is a 3D World that is OWNED by Facebook. The internet works as well as it does because no one company OWNS the internet, there is no one computer to unplug and we lose the internet. Imagine the ways Facebook can (and I would argue WILL) abuse it. Imagine going to a business meeting and going to the Metaverse Shop and your boss yells at you for buying the blue one and not the red one because Facebook snitched
Thanks for your kind feedback, appreciated. And I can only agree on your Facebook ownership point. But we already allow Microsoft to own the interface most people use on a computer . . .
@@ExplainingTheFuture That's true but we also have options such as Linux and MacOS
As well as not having to just use Microsoft Apps such as Office, Edge, and Paint.
Meta/Facebook wants to own this Metaverse and they say "Oh we wanna keep it open" but how much of Meta/Facebook apps are Open Source right now?
@@ExplainingTheFuture Respectfully, I must clarify a point. Most people who use a computer are using a smartphone (computer). Thus the main interface used by ALL users are web-browsers (& mobile apps are a 2nd). Microsoft is a tiny provider of both.
Google's Android OS and Chrome browser are on a majority of smartphones. So your point does apply to Google.
@@keep-ukraine-free I accept your point to some extent, a lot of people do use a smartphone as their only computer. But at work and in education PCs and laptops dominate. And a lot of people do use a PCs or laptops at home. Just looking at my own stats for ExplainingComputers over the past year (to get a large data sample), 49.2% of video views were made on a computer (ie PC or laptop), compared to 31.8% on a smartphone, 6.4% on a tablet, and 12.5% on a TV. And this is for video consumption. So your contention that "most people who use a computer are using a smartphone" I don't think is supported by reality. :)
Excellent video, I hope you continue to make these following March 2022!
Thanks. Continuing beyond March 2022 is my intent. We will see how things go. :)
Hi Chris. I subscribed to this channel last week and have been going through the earlier videos and thought how chilling (because of accuracy) some of your predictions have been e.g working from home using computers. Twelve or so years ago, it just wasn't a thing so no one would have really thought about that, certainly in the context of an alternative workspace during a pandemic (which you predicted also) . Great work ! Also I'm not an academic so appreciate you pitching it at the right level for us average people ! 🙂👍
Thanks for this feedback Mike, most appreciated. :)
There are many things you presented that are worth thinking about, and I wanted to call out just one: the idea that we "visit" web pages and therefore we already have a sense of presence on the web. This is a wonderful observation, and just one of many in your video. Thank you, and best wishes!
Some other relevant 90s VR culture:
Brainscan
eXistenZ
Strange Days
Ghost in the Shell
Cowboy Bebop
Very much so. Nice list.
My primary concern with the growing interconnectedness of technology with biology is the current observable tendency of unscrupulous individuals to take advantage of - or simply vandalize - other people's data. Unless there is a massive shift in detection of - and punishment for - technological abuse of others, we will never be able to enjoy technology without constant fear of abuse (which empowers a whole other industry based on separating us from our assets in exchange for providing us with the illusion of protection).
Oh, and incidentally, great presentation!
As for me, I am run, run away from all things Zuck. Most are sheep and gladly give everything away......some say Neanderthal, ok suits me fine....run run away (how did Monty Python know this back in the 70"s?)
Brain-Computer Interface? Oh, like hell will I let Zuckerberg have access to my brain!
And IMHO, that's where the whole Metaverse thing falls down. The company doing it, (by any name), is not trustworthy. I won't get into all that, but we know why they've been in the news lately. Myself, I hope they go the way of Myspace and LiveJournal; niche players, barely holding on.
The best bet for a “meta verse” would be to develop an application for Android and iOS and make a cheap Google cardboard based cloth head mounted display using Bluetooth mouse+keyboard for input.
Similar to Samsung’s “Gear VR” but cheap enough for most users to afford
I have a strong feeling that If God grants life 15 years from now (today 18th-Jan-2022). This video will be a gem in the recounting of future prospects of tech. Thanks Christopher
Not sure why I flinch so bad seeing you hold a microphone...? Great content though. I often discuss this topic with my grandkids. I picture the metaverse, ( this version that Zuckerberg is trying to stuff down our throats, while implying that he thought of it...) as an invasive, unpleasant version of an extreme nerd's life... not unlike the episodes of South Park when the boys retreat into the basement, ( for an unhealthy period of time ), to battle a World of Warcraft character.
Whether it's a body suit, BCI or a VR headset... personal hygiene and food, not to mention a tangible means of income, would put off all but the most cringe-worthy, basement dwelling, mommy-supported humans. I'm sure that the peripheral economy will sell them a sensory suit with a diaper built in... but... Yuck... I'll pass on the metaverse. I am however, anxious to see more robots made to take care of the crushing number of us that are stumbling into our old age... Humans won't be doing it....
Perhaps a 360 deg., wrap-around screen for gaming will suffice?
Really a thought provoking talk. I watched the video couple times and came up several concepts to integrate into my own research and teaching. Problems with ease of use and ease of integration hampered efforts with platforms like Second Life for teaching at my institution. I think that the Neuromancer (Gibson)/Matrix concept of the metaverse isn't particularly helpful or feasible at this point (like you said). Neil Stephenson's "metaverse" (origin of the term) or an augmented ubiquitous environment as described by Vernor Vinge, author and professor of CS, is a more likely route for digital reality in the medium term. Again, great job on these. I hope you look at AR/MR at some point on one of your channels.
A wonderful presentation...and I really like the new format! Yes Facebook has out lived its usefulness and Mr Zuckerberg is scrambling to keep his cash-cow motivated...
So people that very likely spend too much time on line will spend their lives within it. I wonder what the impact of that will be on real human relationships. Having worked from home for 2 years its pretty clear that work relationships are rapidly becoming wholly transactional. Missing the nuance of face to face encounters.
Your last sentence is sadly so true.
Haha, here in Silicon Valley it seems designers and marketers are r e a l l y excited about the metaverse and the engineers are doing a collective wtf. I think you're pretty spot on with there being some kind of gaming platform/marketplace and I think probably well before 10 years time. It will be second life, hopefully with some common formats/standards, but also with lots of grifting and scamming. As always, the big problems are not technical, but rather the same old things that have dogged humanity for centuries. Look how well FB, news, and other online entities are doing at controlling disinformation, system gaming, and radicalization on the current platforms.
14:55m An incredibly important original theory - why do you think there are not a million views? Just takes / worth a lot of thought. I am looking forward to my third try.
Thanks for watching. :)
My thoughts ...........it's nice to see this channel burst back into life.
Your presentation is animated and you obviously enjoy the topic, as I do.
27:00 Just imagine: the State, current and prospective employers, advertisers, even the co-worker with objectionable hygiene/sense of humour/politics/fetishes* knowing precisely what you're thinking - and have ever thought - each and every moment. What could possibly wrong...? [*delete as appropriate]
Agreed -- but we do have a habit of developing and becoming addicted to new technologies long before we think about their implications . . .
We are now caught in the realities of an unrelenting event horizon, Huxley's Brave New World; but, instead of Ford it's Zuckerberg.
Thank you so for making this well made and valuable video, my personal opinion about metaverse we could not retain our privacy anymore, not one bit back than we could find some ways about enhance our privacy, yet with metaverse every single bit of data could be taken and used against us...
Also new technologies about healthcare is truly exciting, Are we going to see a new video about this topic?
With Kind and Best Regards
I was thinking the exact same thing. It’s like Zuckerberg didn’t do any research into how 3-D failed in the 90s particularly VR. Motion sickness is real and there are a very large amount of people who will not be able to use these headsets.
I'm happy I won't see that cyborg-illusion. The great question, THE question is what's the purpose of human little life, not how to entangle it more and more with the finite experiences of the body.
Form follows function. If our objective is to pool our memories and cognition to more quickly advance our understanding of our environment, then any technology that enables that will naturally eventually prevail. Welcome to our cyborg overlords. Its a shame that in the meantime other less helpful stuff will be done with the technology.
Very interesting and insightful video! Re; Neural links, even after decades of neuroscience we are not even on the verge of whole brain understanding!
The human brain is not a static system of connections. The brain is constantly being remodelled, the dendrites which receive the neurotransmitters from other neurons, growing new branches and changing connections to other neurons, sometimes within hours. Also the role of brain glial cells (of which there are several types) further complicates matters affecting neurotransmission and synaptic connections.
I doubt that neural links will ever progress past a rudimentary level, thank goodness in my opinion.
Sony Computer Entertainment tried something similar with "Playstation Home" on the PS3 back in 2008 ... it was quite good for its time but they killed it off in 2015. They had virtual concerts, games, clubhouses etc. with integrated in-world game launches. It was a good concept but they failed to maintain delivery of meaningful content. As technology and more importantly the number of content creators has flourished, it might take off in an open marketplace much like 2nd life. Hard to tell, although I certainly don't want to expose my neurons to a company of such shady business practices.
As long as there's no giant, ominously ever-present 3D 'Clippy' offering us all help in this brave new world, I'm in.
Metaverse could be a progression from a 2D media to a more immersive 3D media. But do we need this technology? There are many other problems humanity is facing. Why are these rich people investing in these useless technology?
Thank you for an enlightening presentation. I for one will jump headfirst into the Metaverse. Can’t wait for the arrival of the neural interlink. Best wishes.
At last a topic related to Facebook that I can actually understand. A very intersting insiight. I'll be back for more. Thank you
The last video you've posted was, as of 5th December 2021 was...
...2 years ago?
Holy moly! 😜
Silly remarks aside, I like this approach to the channel (longer videos with a presentation style that's similar to your main channel but with a 'live speaker' theme). It also serves well as a 'mini podcast' in case you're the sort that likes to listen to videos in the background, like myself, or watch videos that don't feel like they finish too quickly (also me).
In short: I approve, dearly.
Hmmm, wearing an implant in my brain so I can connect to someone else via a computer has me worried ! What if you were trying to connect to a friend and dialled the wrong number ? You could find yourself connected mentally to a politician and have all of your consciousness sucked into the vacuum on the other end of the connection 🤣
I think any Cybernetic work will be based on medical needs for the immediate future and Robotics will really kick along as we need to develop machines to build / repair things like space stations and bases on the moon and mars .
The metaverse is the sameas Web 3.0 in my mind. Buzzwords with no real meaning other than it is a soundbite or headline fillers. The next level of human conciousness is not faffing around with avatars in a VR enviroment.
Fascinating, and I see it as a progress report on my prediction from 40 years ago that humanity will one day transition from a carbon-based to a silicone-based life form. Thanks.
Thanks fot sharing your ideas, the last part of the video made me think of the Borg in the Star Trek series. Humans will become Borg sometime in the future.
makes me wonder if Bill Gates has dropped the ball or if he has stuff working in the background for minecraft that I believe he bought for this very thing, as it is fully interactive, and decentralized (anyone can set up their own server) and moddable so you can ad the ability for players to insert things like billboards that you can display and interact with webpages and even watch youtube videos in, as well as talk to people that are near you virtually with out everyone on the server being heard making it hard to hear someone, as well as it being 3D sound (ie they move to your left while talking and you now hear them in your left ear as well as walking further they get quieter and quieter the further they get, and items in the world effect the sound too, like walls dampening that sound level even faster. Want more than blocks, look at architectcraft and lycanites mobs as they incorporate lots of various angles in the mobs, and architectcraft adds rounded objects like round pillars and archways ect, (slopes upgrade, as slopes just gave you angled blocks for sooth pyramids and smoother hills)
someone puts a webcam option where your face appears on the face of the character as it being like a screen they then can see your emotion while talking, and each build with its interaction can offer a real world shop portal in that virtual environment, and it is possible to make a single server with a cluster network that can handle millions of users exploring and interacting with a world 7 times larger than the earth,
one thing I have not tried and want to, is the educational edition of minecraft where you can do chemistry and electronics inside the game learning about them via simulation. that and the very basic method while it feels odd to someone first seeing it like lego block world, you get used to it quickly and don't even notice it, and the placement and building or modifying a whole world to your taste is easy enough for anyone to do, unlike what ever that last virtual world used to have you do to make and import things into it. (also you grind real time in the game doing instead of just replicating a thing you made over and over so it diminishes the value on them vs the builds and creations in a minecraft world. though there are mods to copy and paste the builds not only across that world but across servers, too, (and mods to allow just teleporting from one server to another carrying your belongings too. the servers just all have to share the same mod to allow them to interact like this. )
James P. Hogan's "Giants' Star" (1981, third in the "Giants" series) features an interstellar communication system that is completely immersive VR/AR via nerve induction.
This is very thorough analysis. Also for the same reasons is why when I see both AR and VR - I always bet Augmented Reality. Actually I think "Mixed Reality" is what really is the good term, just some companies started to use the term I also used and they do it a bit differently... But TL;DR: "Enhancing what exists" is always winning over "building everything from scratch" - at least until we totally become cyborg people.
Great Video, I hink there will be alot of benifits from these developements, but I am fearful of the damage it may cause society.
Ueh chips in the brain, sounds like something that should never happen to me, but I have no doubt you're right (if this universe carries on for enough time).
One of my favorite channels on TH-cam. Been watching you for years and hope to continue watching for many more years.
I truly enjoyed this video, Chris. Lots of deep matters to consider about the future of humans and the digital "world". Love the audacity of Barnatt's Law--I think you are spot on, and congrats for being the first to articulate it. I'm very glad you are giving this channel such an interesting and relevant reboot. Yes, those prior 3D videos are impressive, but I'd much rather have the relaxed and witty personal Chris talk to me from a podium with a mic in his hand. Just what this viewer needed from this channel after two crazy pandemic years. Wherever that inspiration came from, I'm glad you heeded it, and I'm stoked to see the next three videos in this series. Oh, and you look so nice in a suit!
Finally, thanks for not doing mid-roll ads. I always let your pre and post ads run to completion and hope that makes up a bit for the revenue you lose. If you do need to make a change someday to run those ads, I will still be a faithful viewer. Stay well and enjoy your work.
Thanks for this feedback, most appreciated.
NOT for me. I don't allow Facebook on my device...and certainly won't allow meta.
Thanks for presenting an interesting subject. There is much to think about these ideas, and your future videos should be a lot of fun.
I like cool tech as much as any other guy, but this VR thing is not something we need. There are so many other areas where existing technology could vastly improve quality of life, but ofter human factor gets in a way. I'd rather see companies trying to find solutions to battle that, instead of bringing fancy futuristic things in our lives to earn money and take more control. I'd like us to stop for a moment and make the most of the technology we already have, before pouring even more work and resources in R&D of something we may never need.
Countries need to enact new laws to make internet companies accountable legally. Rule 230 is a US law that allows them to do whatever they want, it needs to be repealed.
Very true. And I think one reason that Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to transition into a Metaverse company is that he knows the days of social media in its current form is limited, as laws will arrive now sooner rather than later.
@@ExplainingTheFuture Zuckerberg spent 400million on election fraud for the 2020 US presidential election, plain and simple and it worked.
Meta technology relies on the internet; a common zone for warfare right now!
We need to secure that place the way we protect our valuable things.
This has already been done since at least 2008 in Second Life, sans VR and AR. It has the avatars, online currency/marketplace that Zuck is describing.
Agreed. :)
I have only violent hatred and contempt for Mark Zuckerberg.
Ruined this word.
Ruined our worlds
@@RhizometricReality The Metaverse as he sees it will never come to be. The future platforms as always will be built by the users that use that platform.
@@DaxLLM i still want him to be punished
@@RhizometricReality Blame stupid people, not him.
While we are a billionaire with wife and children all living happily in the metaverse our bodies are shrivelling away in a pod and are disposed of without achieving anything in the real world.
That's true, it's really difficult to simulate in VR the smell of the fresh air when you walk with your legs on the ocean in the real world
I think this has been occuring some time already and VRChat has already covered a lot of what it is... What is the outcome of VRChat? Low retention rates.
I am so underwhelmed and uninterested in anything Facebook and metacrap
Excellent job. Very interesting and insightful.
I like this format. Enjoyable and thought provoking. Thanks :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nvidia is working on something similar. I also think Digital Twins will continue evolve.
I like the format very much - it is like a mini lecture :) Very interesting. Thank you!
I found this style of video rather refreshing and interesting, it almost had a tomorrows world vide to it. I like hearing about the possibilities of where computers will go in the near and far future. Will done for a great video and I hope this becomes a permanent thing that you do.
Thanks for this. My plan is to release one of these videos on the 1st day of each month. We will see how it goes!
Thank you very much for these great informations 💙👍🏻.
I expected a boring-ish video - but experienced a very interesting material instead
We are the zuckerborg, lower your shields and prepare to be assimilated.
Hello again. I like the new format. I feel like I am at one of your conferences. Thank you.
Thanks ExplainingTheFuture / ExplainingComputers for your very well explained explanations explaining all the things you explain to us :)
Very informative and enjoying. Microphone - Mmmmmm.
Great video but,no thanks! The powers that shouldn't be know far to much about us as is. Thank you and blessings .
In 10 or 20 years time, people will watch Mark Zuckerberg's keynote presentation on VR and howl with laughter. The same way I've watched videos from the early 90's of people prophesising about the "information superhighway". Elements of the 90's videos have turned out to be correct but their visions of the future always seem packaged up in 90's looking technology. And it's always this way; the computers in Star Trek look like a mainframe computer from the 1960s.
I wouldn't trust facebook with my enemies worst secrets.
As somebody for whom even haptic feedback in videogames is too intrusive, I don't know how I feel about this whole thing with its VR and brain interface implications. I think the potential dangers of an isolated and run down real life while at the same time people would be jacked in an idealised and expensive digital existence should be pointed out.
I'm really happy that you restante this Channel! Thank you teacher! from Brazil!
Thanks! Glad to know that this video is travelling around the planet! What a wonderful thing the Internet is.
An excellent presentation Christopher. I clearly remember my experience of disorientation and nausea from 3D Television. It was a terrible experience for me. I will remain centered in the present, experiencing reality without adopting these proposed technological enhancements.
Bravo! I like what you're doing. I'm now going to be watching ETF much more frequently than I have in the past. I'm already a frequent viewer/subscriber of EC and also subscribe to ETF, but just having been viewing the latter as much as the former. Keep up the great work, CB.
Thanks for watching. :)
What a great (re)start to the channel! It really feels like you're actually having a good bit of fun doing it, too, so it's quite pleasant to watch.
I have some mixed feelings about Metaverse. Or I guess I should say, Meta/Facebook. I quite like the idea of Metaverse, but unfortunately I'm just not comfortable with the company behind it. I expect that even if it takes off, and VR becomes extremely comfortable and highly immersive, I probably won't get too involved. I guess if we could say Metaverse is like Microsoft Windows, I'm waiting for someone to make Linux.
I think you're right though, that Metaverse probably will become big for gaming. I don't suppose it'll be so big for business since, as you said, many people just can't use it comfortably. Why be uncomfortable in VR when you can just as well voice and video chat? But for those who can, VR definitely offers some great gaming potential.
As for BCI's, that's been my dream for decades. I remember trying something some 15 years ago, some kind of headband like a super cheap EEG, to read brain activity to control my computer. Either it didn't work, or I never figured it out. It would've been one way communication had it worked anyways, oh well. Still, if BCI technology were safe, comfortable and inexpensive, I'd be one of the first to give it a go. I'd only be concerned with privacy and ownership of course. I'd hope the whole system would belong to me just like my computer belongs to me, and only does what I want it do and isn't spying on my mind for the benefit of some big company. Letting someone enter the privacy of your mind and directly access your thoughts or feelings or intentions, is an enormously huge matter of trust, ya know? Still, the possibilities are very appealing. What I'd give to just share my dreams with people instead of having to type up lengthy descriptions of what happened while I slept... or what it might allow people to accomplish in psychotherapy if patient and doctor can more directly experience eachother's minds. Very exciting stuff!
The only social networking I do is in the saloons. Call me old fashioned.
the Quest 1 & 2, both have HAND TRACKING,, using the inside out camera tracking,,
Many games and apps make use of it all ready
Maybe you should get a Quest,, and "... have a go",, its good fun
Yes, I'm aware that the Quest 1 and 2 have hand tracking, but nothing like the Meta wrist neural interface delivers (where you can actually type). You are right, I must get an Oculus and experiment! :)
Very interesting presentation. I like how you took the time to place the Meta development in historical context. That's not something we see often in this age of shrinking attention spans.
I will leave my feedback short .... loved it
Excelent video. It feels like a natural extension of Explaining Computers (that's how I got here). Thank you Christopher for your amazing content. Greetings from Chile
Thanks for watching -- and greetings from the UK! :)
Love the presentation set up. I watched it with some of my older kids and they found it interesting. As an American, I liked hearing you say “ain’t”. For a moment I thought you were going to go full “Texan” for us! Anyway great job. I’m looking forward to next month’s video!
Thanks for watching! :)