SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk shouldn’t be impressed by the metaverse and isn’t satisfied that we’ll all disappear into this hyper-virtual world anytime quickly. This remark of Musk has are available in an interview given to YouTube channel ‘The Babylon Bee’.
When requested in regards to the Metaverse, Musk replied, “I don’t know if I want to buy this Metaverse stuff, although people talk to me about it a lot.” He additional added that he does not see a future the place individuals need to dwell on this digital actuality that firms like Meta are pushing.
Musk stated he does not consider individuals will go away the bodily world and exchange it with a digital world, particularly one with a display over their faces.
“You know when I grew up it was like ‘don’t sit too close to the TV, it’ll ruin your eyesight’ and now the TV is really right here (puts his hand too close to his face), I Am like umm what? Is this good for you?” Musk joked in regards to the absurdity of holding a display close to your face for a very long time,
“I don’t see anyone patting the friggin’ screen in their face all day”, she stated bluntly.
In his view, NeuraLink is a greater resolution than VR glasses, “In the long run, a sophisticated NeuraLink can put you entirely in a virtual reality,” he stated. Neuralink can be one in all Musk’s firms making an attempt to construct mind and human-machine interfaces.
Musk’s feedback in regards to the Metaverse come as Facebook switched itself to ‘Meta’ earlier this 12 months to push the thought. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls it a extra real, pure technique to expertise the Internet. At a latest Fuel for India occasion, Zuckerberg additionally stated that India goes to play an enormous position in constructing the metaverse.
The announcement has adopted plenty of considerations within the tech sector, primarily the dystopian implications of one thing just like the Metaverse and privateness considerations over information given Facebook’s tainted historical past.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
