He said that will unlock a lot of economic opportunity because people will be able to live where they want and increasingly work where they want and kind of teleport into place.
Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements.Zuckerberg told the Clubhouse talkshow: "One of the things that will unlock is the ability to live anywhere you want and be present in another place and really feel like you are there." It begins: ‘The following presentation includes forward-looking statements about our future business plans and expectations. But it’s OK because his future may never arrive: In the beginning of the keynote is a small text that I had to screenshot in order to read in full.
A week after Facebook employee Frances Haugen leaked documents proving how the company placed profits before any attempt to curtail hate speech and misinformation on the platform, Zuckerberg explains how we will all “need to work together from the beginning to bring the best possible version of this future to life.” There’s a very obvious gap between Zuckerberg’s empty invitation to collaborate on a positive, egalitarian, shared vision of the future and the reality of Facebook’s corporate activities. “Imagine” Zuckerberg keeps saying, describing this new emerging terra incognita space. Personally, I would really want more from the future than to play ping-pong or pick-up basketball with “people on the other side of the world” or “even against an AI” – those feel like naïve early-internet promises that disregard how they have been manufactured by a platform that has promoted racism, political turmoil, and misinformation with disastrous effects felt around the world. All Zuck is offering is a “homespace” that you can fill with “digital goods” and a virtual environment where “you’ll feel like you’re right there together” with other people. In science fiction, there are genderless humanoids moving across planets mingling with other species. Meta’s imagination is so limited, so dull – the faux-café in the offices where Zuckerberg ends his presentation, the kinda-Scandi furniture in his house, the clothes, the image of the future – that when (of course) he caveats that it all may “sound like science fiction”, it’s too clear how it doesn’t. When he uses the Messenger app on his smartwatch to connect to another friend she apologises for being “late” because she and a friend are checking out an artist “going around SoHo hiding AR pieces for people to find.” 3D street art? That’s cool exclaims Zuckerberg, and when she shares a link to the (abstract, snaking purple and yellow ball) piece they all agree it’s stunning and describe how they love the way it moves. The joke just exposes how lacking in imagination this presentation, or Zuckerberg’s image of himself, is. One of his friends is dressed like a robot but Zuckerberg opts for a less fancy-dress option, after he flips through outfits (in a way that reminds millennial me of Cher in Clueless choosing her school clothes) looking at a pair of black jeans and a black T-shirt, a skeleton costume, an astronaut suit, finally settling for virtually the same outfit Real Mark is wearing in the vid – black jeans and a light, long-sleeved navy jumper. And you can inhabit other spaces too – Zuckerberg’s digital avatar meets his metaverse mates in a floating spaceship for a game of cards (“Who made this place?” “A creator I met in LA”).
Zuckerberg commuting replaced vr ar windows#
In Meta’s vision of the metaverse, the home is a “homespace” where windows open onto whatever view users find “incredibly inspiring”.
The metaverse, a term for the virtual environment of the future, looks very specific in Zuckerberg’s illustrative video, in which he keeps asking viewers to just “imagine” everything, while delivering a strangled vision of the possible future. To that end, it has rebranded as ‘Meta’, complete with a wilting-infinity-symbol logo reminiscent of an M in Facebook-blue. Zuckerberg describes how Facebook is shifting its focus away from its family of social media apps (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) to the ‘metaverse’. A bottle of Sweet Baby Ray’s honey barbecue sauce is used as a bookend, for that seriously personal touch. The video introducing Facebook’s new identity and future direction – announced during the company’s AR/VR conference last month – opens with Zuckerberg sitting in an incredibly beige living room with bookcases loosely filled with leather-bound books (a very contemporary look) and photos that look like they came with the frames. Watching Mark Zuckerberg describe the future drains it of that sweetness.
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