EARLY ACCESS: Everyone Hates The MetaVerse
Added 2022-08-05 16:00:10 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/E8eyKmTTJKs
It's Friday, which means you get to watch the weekend video before everyone else! And this one to me feels like a really old-school Buckley video (except for the length of course), just one of those things where I saw a topic that I think is really interesting and funny to me (in this case, multiple stories over the last 6 months about how awful Mark Zuckerberg's latest project is), I know the algorithm is probably not going to be kind to it, but I had a lot of fun making it, so here we are. Hopefully you enjoy it as much as I enjoy the idea of Mark Zuckerberg sinking all of his money into something that requires people to wear a big stupid helmet that no one wants to wear. Enjoy!
Mark Zuckerberg is a strong believer in the future of "The MetaVerse", a virtual reality space where people will interact like they do on Facebook, but with digital avatars and a lot more immersion. The problem with that? People will interact like they do on Facebook, but with digital avatars and a lot more immersion! Buckley looks at a study where researchers absolutely hated working in the MetaVerse, a virtual Foo Fighters concert that went very poorly, and NUMEROUS women being harassed and cyber-air-humped. This is the world Mark Zuckerberg believes 1/8th of the population will want to live in...
