After the CEO recently posted a picture of his own avatar to his Facebook page, he was mocked ruthlessly by people who felt the image looked amateur. Many have raised doubts as to whether Zuckerberg’s vision is even possible. Mark Zuckerberg’s original avatar, as posted to his Facebook page in August. The company said investments in its Reality Labs division that’s responsible for building the Metaverse cut operating profits by US$10 billion in 2021. That vision is still far off - and costing Meta tens of billions of dollars in the interim.
Someday users may access the metaverse as digital avatars through devices like the Quest Pro, and eventually augmented reality glasses intended to look like ordinary reading spectacles. Still, Meta’s research in developing virtual and augmented reality headsets is key to plans for the so-called Metaverse, an immersive version of the internet where Zuckerberg hopes people will eventually work and play.
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Meta and Zuckerberg have been teasing the Quest Pro for months, and many of the headset’s details leaked ahead of Tuesday’s announcement at the company’s annual Connect conference. And go: the signs were there all along.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. And we will look back at this photograph, and his haircut, and go: ah, we were such fools. We should never have trusted that man at all. We'll all be behind a chainlink fence watching a playground explode and thinking: we should never have trusted Mark Zuckerberg, with his grey T-shirt and jeans. But this does seem like a watershed moment we will all look back on with latent terror: an, "Ah, that's when Skynet took a hold" sort of thing. I feel like we'll all enjoy VR until some wholesome YouTuber does a viral video called '#TakeYourGogglesOff,' with rhyming couplets about how "You need to take time to see your family / run in park, look at bee, look at tree" that tells us how in the good old days people used to talk to each other instead of having endless four-dimensional VR-assisted hyperwanks, and that actually, VR is bad. Nerves on fire and shrieks so high and piercing that they become a constant terror, a terror that never leaves you even when it's gone. Hell in its rawest form: lava and fire and heat and the endless infinity of agony. Fire and brimstone and terrible gremlins untold. Based on the enthusiasm of the assembled masses: a screaming, 360-degree vision of hell. On Noisey: Kanye West, Depression, You, And MeĪnd recall that we don't even know what demo the VR device is displaying. Later he'll say "and while all these tech journalists were distracted with a simple VR device, I launched a nuclear weapon to explode the moon!" And it really looks like Mark Zuckerberg is about to break into an evil cackle and then get into a rooftop gun fight with a spy. The exact moment a fledging future technology was revealed, properly, to an awaiting world: a future being reshaped and formed in front of our very eyes.
So I guess in essence we are looking at a real moment in time: in the grand canon, this photo is up there with the moon landing footage, the Zapruder film, Bernie Boston's Flower Power, the sailor kiss in Times Square. This dude does not know how VR works so he's looking behind him to see how far it goes.
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