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Can you explain your thought process a bit more (assuming you weren’t being sarcastic)?

AndrewKemendo 5y ago
Happy to, though for brevity sake I will make some claims that I won't derive here - so forgive me and caveat emptor please. The concept of the metaverse is one in which the physical world is connected to "virtual" worlds via some abstracted reference. For example, I can put a RFID sensor on a doorway (lets call these markers) for example, to which you can then scan that RFID with an interrogator and that will link the physical presence of the interrogation device with the physical location of the RFID sensor. You can take this example much further and for example use a series of cameras/sensors to take video and then reconstruct that in real time to recreate a "real time" virtual copy of whatever is happening in the real world. Now imagine that you have a camera on you at all times that is outward facing (like the cameras on the Rift that are used to sense location). If you can build a representation of the real world that itself acts like unique markers that are inherited from the world, then the Oculus system can have a temporal representation of your location (assuming you're wearing such a device), gaze, and all of the associated data that can be extracted from the environment. So take it a step further a few decades and now you are wearing augmented reality glasses which have an always on camera - for sundry technical purposes that are required for it to work that I won't go into here. At scale, I now have a constantly updated version of not only the real world - because you're updating the virtual representation of the real world state - but also how you interact with the real world, what you interact with etc... such that we can rebuilt a massively robust understanding of you and your behaviors (and everyone else's even if they aren't using glasses) to a degree that would be not just unprecedented but also incredibly valuable to advertisers and companies. That is worth Trillions and FB (and SNAP and others) has been moving steadily on this path to realize this world for at least a decade.

Happy to, though for brevity sake I will make some claims that I won't derive here - so forgive me and caveat emptor please. The concept of the metaverse is one in which the physical world is connected to "virtual" worlds via some abstracted reference. For example, I can put a RFID sensor on a doorway (lets call these markers) for example, to which you can then scan that RFID with an interrogator and that will link the physical presence of the interrogation device with the physical location of the RFID sensor. You can take this example much further and for example use a series of cameras/sensors to take video and then reconstruct that in real time to recreate a "real time" virtual copy of whatever is happening in the real world. Now imagine that you have a camera on you at all times that is outward facing (like the cameras on the Rift that are used to sense location). If you can build a representation of the real world that itself acts like unique markers that are inherited from the world, then the Oculus system can have a temporal representation of your location (assuming you're wearing such a device), gaze, and all of the associated data that can be extracted from the environment. So take it a step further a few decades and now you are wearing augmented reality glasses which have an always on camera - for sundry technical purposes that are required for it to work that I won't go into here. At scale, I now have a constantly updated version of not only the real world - because you're updating the virtual representation of the real world state - but also how you interact with the real world, what you interact with etc... such that we can rebuilt a massively robust understanding of you and your behaviors (and everyone else's even if they aren't using glasses) to a degree that would be not just unprecedented but also incredibly valuable to advertisers and companies. That is worth Trillions and FB (and SNAP and others) has been moving steadily on this path to realize this world for at least a decade.