Metaverse not 'Compelling' and Web3 'More Marketing than Reality': Elon Musk Said
Metaverse is not much, but the buzzing word of the Technology market. The Tesla CEO ‘Elon Musk’ denied the fact that the ‘Metaverse’ and ‘Web3’ will be the apex point of the future upcoming internet world.
In the recent interview hosted by the Babylonbee.com of the SpaceX and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk commented on the hot topic and so-called future of the internet Metaverse and said that he couldn’t see a compelling use case for the Virtual Reality- driven Metaverse and derided Web3- which is a rebuilt of internet service around the subject of blockchain and cryptocurrency. He added during the interview that “More Marketing than reality” and “I didn’t get it”.
Highlighted facts
- Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and Crypto supporter is not much excited about the new VR Metaverse.
- Musk showed his belief in Neural links and said that it is a better future project.
- He added during the interview with Babylon Bee that the Metaverse is developing fast while the neural link is still underdeveloped.
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In the interview Musk also said that it might be true that he is “Too Old “to understand the future of the internet with the invention of such great technology.
Further adding he said, “Am I like one of those people who was dismissing the internet in 95 as some fad or something that’s never going to be amount or anything?” including this he also revealed that in 1995, he was one of those who was admitting the potential of the internet in future of the world.
While Musk was criticizing the Metaverse, he narrated that he is not seeing the compelling use- cases, and also there is a disappointing experience by the consumers. He said “Sure you can a Tv in your nose. I am not sure that makes you ‘in the metaverse,” further he added “I don’t see someone frigging screen to their face all day and not wanting to leave. That seems- no way.” And said, “I currently am unable to see a compelling metaverse situation”.
The discussion was based on many matters related to the latest changes and news against him and including this he also said a lot about the Buzzing news of the tech market metaverse and said that it is an over-hyped branding exercise as a series in the virtual technology by providing some gadgets like VR headset to access it as we have already seen this in the VR boom of the 90s and the increasing interest for the spaces like Second Life, the technology related to VR in 2000s. And the current gadgets saying them as VR-like metaverse and Web3 is like the improved hardware of the VR world as a flashy new. And it is consuming billions of dollars from the biggest companies and right now such companies are very keen to invest in such VR new world and to occupy control of such technology.
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In the other interview somewhere else with the Babylon Bee, Musk said on the topic of ‘climate change and said “I am not in the camp of super alarming global warming” adding the same he said, the rising level of seeing is not a good risk to take. He also mentioned that the experience of the other world on the earth will be dangerous and said “if anyone would ask me about the evidence of aliens it would be me”, and I have seen nothing”. And also added that there should any regulatory body to control and oversee the technology like Advance‘AI’ that can lead the biggest threat to ‘Humanity’.
At the begging of the interview Musk also commented about the TV Babylon Bee and said them the ‘Politically correct’ and ‘Leftist’ and compared them with the Onion which got a virus named “the woke mind virus” and later he also described it the biggest threat to the modern civilization.
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Why Metaverse is in the news?
In the tech world, everyone is talking about the term ‘Metaverse’ as recently Facebook has changed its name to the metaverse, and also it showed its interest to control it. Many other leading companies like Microsoft also showed the inclination for the new VR invention metaverse whereas the other known names like Tesla CEO, Elon Musk commented about it as not compelling and called them the marketing stuff than the reality.
Almost everyone has seen the movie ‘Avatar’ in which the actor goes in the other virtual world and experiences reality without being present in the physical. Hence the technology which was used in the Movie was the VR tech and now the coming known word is functioning in the same way.
In today’s world, everyone wants to experience such unexpected reality and wants to be there for some time, and the access to such reality may be based on the electronic devices by video or audio method. This has been the core reason for collecting such fame in the market.
What is Metaverse?
The term ‘Metaverse’ was coined in 1992 by the Author Neal Stephenson published this word in his science fiction novel “Snow Crash” in which he envisioned the lifelike avatars in which people went to the virtual world and met there in realistic 3D environments.
From then onwards many developments in this Virtual field have been made and the medium to experience such reality may be video or audio method. This technology is already given by many gaming websites in their games and given the facility to experience the virtual world.
What are the examples of Metaverse?
Meta
This is claimed to the VR technology as Metaverse by the CEO of the Facebook company. In the related topic he said “The next platform and medium will be more immersive and embodied internet, where you are in the experience, not just looking at it, and we call this the metaverse,” the above statement is said by the CEO itself in the last month while revealing the company’s rebranding.
Microsoft
The Microsoft team 2022 has included Augmented Virtual reality in its projects. And it already published the holograms and recently he announced the plans for building such mixed reality technology. The company has recently mixed with the US Army and worked together to make an augmented reality 'Hololens 2' headset for the soldiers and the purpose behind it, is to train, rehearse, and fight.
There are also certain examples of such technologies which are providing such Virtual reality in the form of video or audio such names are
Roblox
Minecraft
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