{"id":716,"date":"2021-11-19T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T08:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/facebooks-metaverse-plans-labelled-as-dystopian-and-a-bad-idea-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T09:27:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T08:27:15","slug":"facebooks-metaverse-plans-labelled-as-dystopian-and-a-bad-idea-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/facebooks-metaverse-plans-labelled-as-dystopian-and-a-bad-idea-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#039;s metaverse plans labelled as &#039;dystopian&#039; and &#039;a bad idea&#039; &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>By Jane Wakefield<\/strong><br \/>Technology reporter <\/span><br \/><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">One of Facebook&#x27;s earliest investors has labelled the social media giant&#x27;s plans for a metaverse as &quot;dystopian&quot;.<\/b><br \/>Meta, as Facebook is now known, is investing billions in the project.<br \/>But Roger McNamee told the BBC: &quot;It&#x27;s a bad idea and the fact we are all sitting and looking at this like it&#x27;s normal should be alarming everyone.&quot;<br \/>Meta&#x27;s chief product officer Chris Cox told attendees at the Web Summit in Lisbon that the idea would make &quot;the internet less flat&quot;.<br \/>He said it would be considerably better than video conferencing as a space for meetings.<br \/>However, speaking at the same event, Mr McNamee was highly sceptical.<br \/>&quot;Facebook should not be allowed to create a dystopian metaverse,&quot; he said.<br \/>The term metaverse was coined in the 1990s in a science fiction novel Snow Crash, where it served as a virtual reality successor to the internet.<br \/>Mr McNamee became a critic of Facebook as he began to see more misinformation on the platform. He said he was not convinced the metaverse would be safe in chief executive Mark Zuckerberg&#x27;s hands.<br \/>&quot;There&#x27;s no way that a regulator or policymaker should be allowing Facebook to operate there [in the metaverse] or get into cryptocurrencies,&quot; he said.<br \/>&quot;Facebook should have lost the right to make its own choices. A regulator should be there giving pre-approval for everything they do. The amount of harm they&#x27;ve done is incalculable.&quot;<br \/>Mr Cox, speaking for Meta, put forward a different view &#8211; that the metaverse idea is the next step for the internet as a whole, not just for his company.<br \/>&quot;Technology often starts in lower resolutions versions of what it becomes,&quot; he said.<br \/>Feedback from Meta&#x27;s Oculus virtual reality headset users was that the technology, which was improving all the time, could be &quot;incredibly fun&quot;.<br \/>Mr Cox told Nicholas Carlson, editor-in-chief of news publication Insider, that his own dabbling in the metaverse included hosting meetings and entertainment for staff.<br \/>He said he and his wife had watched a comedy show with Facebook employees in which everyone appeared as avatars: &quot;Twenty of us in the room, co-workers, all laughing together.&quot;<br \/>That same technology was a good alternative to video calls, he argued.<br \/>This video can not be played<br \/>&quot;Everyone is exhausted by video conferencing. You don&#x27;t know who is looking at who, everyone is constantly interrupting each other.&quot;<br \/>Meetings in the metaverse would be far better, he said, with Meta working on how to improve &quot;spatial audio and body language&quot; in virtual reality.<br \/>When asked why anyone would want to meet in virtual reality, he said: &quot;It will not replace real life &#8211; nothing should &#8211; and I don&#x27;t want to design something that does.&quot;<br \/>He acknowledged that no one company, such as Meta, would own the metaverse, pointing to Roblox as an example.<br \/>Roblox, a user-generated gaming platform valued at $30bn (\u00a322bn) and with 43 million users around the globe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-56345586\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">has its own plans for the metaverse.<\/a><br \/>Chief executive David Baszucki has for several years been outlining his vision of it as a digital place where people play, work or learn with millions of 3D experiences.<br \/>At Web Summit, Roblox&#x27;s head of music Jon Vlassopulos told the BBC: &quot;I think our view of the metaverse is that we&#x27;ve been at it for about 15 years. <br \/>&quot;So we&#x27;re ushering in the metaverse, and we feel it needs to be a place that everyone can access, a place where people can express themselves and connect together.<br \/>&quot;We&#x27;ve been building around this vision for a long time. 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