you've probably seen the news just a few weeks ago facebook announced that they're changing their company name to meta because they're planning on building something called the metaverse i don't think enough people are talking about this the metaverse is going to change my life it's going to change your life so we need to understand what it is why people are excited about it but then also how it has the potential to end society as we know it the concept of the metaverse is this throughout history we have constantly been moving towards more and more engaging mediums we've gone from text to photo to video we've gone from reading books and papers to now spending most of our spare time watching tick tocks on the internet and the metaverse is what comes next an internet that you're not just looking at through a screen but that you're actually inside of take anything you could think of doing right now shopping chatting with friends meditating to asmr videos on youtube and now imagine that in the time it takes you to just snap your fingers you could be doing that thing in a way that feels real with other people who feel present in a setting that's whatever you want it to be a living shared everlasting virtual universe that's meta's vision of the metaverse achieved through a combination of augmented reality and virtual reality which they've said that they will subsidize the cost of in an effort to get as many people on this planet to be a part of the metaverse and in case i wasn't clear this is pretty damn cool then there are some undeniable positives like just to get the obvious out the way the metavest will allow you to live out your fantasies in one single evening you could be slaying enemies in handheld combat you could be playing a quiet game of chess on the streets of new york and surfboarding across the tropics of the bahamas all with incredible realism but at the same time the reassurance that you yourself are safe at home and on a similar note there is also a comfort to the idea that you'll also be able to express yourself however you want to you know how now you have a profile picture for your social media accounts the kind of the image that represents you to other people well in the metaverse you won't just have an image you will have an avatar a fully three-dimensional living depiction of you but you in the way that you would want to be did you ever wish you were three inches taller now you can be did you ever wish you had a bigger forehead now you can have one you can be any gender you want you can be any race you want you could be any creature you want yes milo i choose you and to be very clear longer term your avatar is not going to look like these cartoon people i think they just use them to make it seem a little bit less creepy the truth is though meta is also working on the tech to create completely lifelike avatars fully rendered with every hair on their head and if we pour on their skin this is not a game this will feel like real life and what i'm saying is that this realism combined with the sheer amount of choices you'll get will allow you to feel like you're not being constrained by the body that you are physically born into in real life you could be someone with a severe disability in a wheelchair but in the metaverse forget walking you could be able to fly and if you are enjoying
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