Meta announcement

• Shared VR experiences

• AR Street art

Core stuff

• the feeling of presence

• avatars

- includes gestures, more personal than an image

- can have different avatars for different contexts

• home space

- design it

- invite people over

- your personal space

• teleporting

• interoperability

- teleporting like clicking a link

- items and purchases transfer

- requires new forms of governance

• privacy

• virtual goods

-  physical items can be brought into the metaverse

- items can switch between meta verse and real world via AR

• natural interfaces

- devices don't get in the way

Horizon

• the network being built by Meta

• will be able to invite people over

• Horizon worlds and workrooms to create custom spaces

What’s being built

• objects that can be interacted with

• AR tools

- scavenger hunts, guided tours

the AR ping pong or basketball ideas push the limits of what we think is doable with latency

Mark is optimistic about work in the meta verse, I can see it

Mark believes high fees and lack of choice inhibiting creativity in tech, interesting.

Seems to be committing to openness with the metaverse

Believes this type of metaverse is the next step for the internet.

Presence platform

• environmental understanding

• hand interaction

- interaction sdk

• voice interaction

Augmented reality

• spark

• Spark AR

• “AR to be more connected and more present”

• connected deeply with metaverse it seems

Project Aria, AR glasses

Want to include human and civil rights entities

Project Cambria, higher level VR / mixed reality

Next year release

AR

• ray ban glasses

• Project Naziray

 - AR glasses

 - still a ways to go

Avatars

• super high quality

• clothing simulation

• avatar security

EMG input for devices (including AR glasses)

• typing

• neural commands sent to your body can direct devices

• knowing where you are looking

My thoughts

1. How is what Meta is building truly open and interoperable?

2. How down is Jon Batiste with all this??!?

3. All this is really just waiting for computing to get strong enough to reduce the weight and make a truly usable VR / AR headset

4. There is a bit of this feels horrifying, but I think there’s a lot of good that can come from this, this feels like the same category of problem as AI alignment: Metaverse alignment

5. Maybe an over-emphasis on commerce? Seems to be appeasing people who use facebook to sell goods

6. There seems to be a feeling from some people that this is a hellish idea of the future, and I sympathize with it. I wonder if this is something society will shift on over time. Even if not, it seems to be coming in some form or another.