![]() In the metaverse, they will try to show each other their dicks, though it’s worth noting right now that Facebook’s current metaverse avatars do not have bodies that exist below their waists. There is no universe, meta-or-otherwise, in which people will not spread conspiracy theories, hate speech, and make threats online. But the juxtaposition between Zuckerberg’s pitch of living, working, playing, and generally existing in a utopian, fake, Facebook-developed virtual world loaded with fun and friendly people, concerts where you can always be in the front row, seamless mixed-reality basketball games where you feel like you are actually playing basketball, and kicksass, uhh, NFTs you can use to modify your metaverse avatar are a far cry from the disinformation, conspiracy theories, genocide-related, self-esteem destroying, spam, and general garbage content that exists on the platforms Facebook has already built. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to watch either of those things, of course. ![]() Facebook’s algorithm, meanwhile, was recommending that users also watch a Latina woman dominate and lick the stomach of a little person (11,000 viewers) it also recommended people watch a video game livestream pitched with a thumbnail of two CGI people fucking (4,000 viewers). While about 19,000 people were watching Zuckerberg cosplay as James Halliday, the fictional metaverse creator from the bleak Ready Player One series on Facebook’s Live platform. “We have to fit holograms displays, projectors, batteries, radios, custom silicon chips, cameras, speakers, sensors to map the world around you, and more, into glasses that are five millimeters thick," Zuckerberg says. We're told that two real people, filmed with real cameras on real couches, are in a "digital space." When Zuckerberg reveals that Facebook is working on augmented reality glasses that could make any of this even a possibility, it doesn't show any actual glasses, only "simulated footage" of augmented reality. It was flagrantly abstract, showing more the dream of the metaverse than anything resembling reality. This theme continued throughout as people wandered seamlessly into virtual fantasy worlds over and over, and the presentation lacked any sense of what this so-called metaverse would look like in practice. ![]() In the concert example, one friend is present in reality while the other is not the friend joins the concert inexplicably as a blue Force ghost and the pair grab "tickets" to a "metaverse afterparty" in which NFTs are for sale. These presentations had the familiar vibe of an overly-ambitious video game reveal.
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