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be aware that Facebook owns Oculus, and in the past Mark Zuckerberg has negotiated with Oculus to deliver ads through the Oculus headsets.
But the big news is Zuckerberg's announcement from last week, when he declared that he is rebranding Facebook as Meta, as in, the Metaverse.
The Oculus headsets are *very* cool, especially the newest versions, which are standalone, but consider this:
Most of the technologies Mark shows himself doing in his announcement do not exist at present.
In addition, there is this thing called *interoperability* which means the capability of a product or system to function with another system and, since there aren't a lot of games or systems developed yet, and add to that the lawyers of the various companies haven't thrashed out the contracts yet, Zuckerberg can't promise that the Oculus is going to be able to deliver a lot of those nifty things you have read about people's avatars doing in Neal Stephenson and William Gibson novels.
So, basically, Zuckerberg is already selling you some really fancy advertising and, with the Oculus, he intends on selling you a lot more.
Here is an article that unpacks a lot more of the technical aspects by a podcaster who focuses on VR technology
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/10/facebook-metaverse-explained-meta-1234675318/
But the big news is Zuckerberg's announcement from last week, when he declared that he is rebranding Facebook as Meta, as in, the Metaverse.
The Oculus headsets are *very* cool, especially the newest versions, which are standalone, but consider this:
Most of the technologies Mark shows himself doing in his announcement do not exist at present.
In addition, there is this thing called *interoperability* which means the capability of a product or system to function with another system and, since there aren't a lot of games or systems developed yet, and add to that the lawyers of the various companies haven't thrashed out the contracts yet, Zuckerberg can't promise that the Oculus is going to be able to deliver a lot of those nifty things you have read about people's avatars doing in Neal Stephenson and William Gibson novels.
So, basically, Zuckerberg is already selling you some really fancy advertising and, with the Oculus, he intends on selling you a lot more.
Here is an article that unpacks a lot more of the technical aspects by a podcaster who focuses on VR technology
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/10/facebook-metaverse-explained-meta-1234675318/
