Silicon Valley's metaverse will suck reality into the virtual world — and ostracize those who aren't plugged in

The metaverse has been marketed as a place where we can interact, buy things, date, and more in a virtual world.

What if the metaverse also represents a point in time when we live more in the digital world than we do in the physical one?

Louis Rosenberg is the CEO of the augmented reality company, Unanimous AI, and he has been in the industry for 30 years.

"I am absolutely certain that this point in time will come, and it will not be good for humanity," she said.

Although virtual reality and augmented reality are important aspects of the metaverse structure, it's glasses that will become ubiquitous within 10 years, replacing the cell phone as our primary means of interacting with digital content, he said.
The lines between the real and digital worlds will blur more than ever before.

The last step is the virtual object that is indistinguishable from a physical object.

People will go into the virtual playland because of FOMO.

The Ray-Ban "Stories" smart glasses are from Facebook.

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We've seen points in time like this before, like how the printing press changed how we share information or how we communicate across distances.

"We use our phones more times than we speak to our spouse, and that's because we use our phones more on the go," said Vipp Jaswal, CEO of Interpersonal Intelligence Advisory.

A new kind of technology will be necessary to operate in society as a result of the metaverse. We'll work, live, buy and sell things, and play virtually.

If you don't have glasses, you won't be able to see the prices at the store.
Shaan Puri, founder of the startup stealth and former product director of twitch, recently pondered on the topic of the metaverse being the point in time when the virtual landscape becomes more real than the natural world.

October 29, 2021.

The time could come when artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans, according to the so-called "smile theory" in the world of artificial intelligence.

The name of the metaverse isn't given to the point in time. Since it's an evolutionary stage where we as a species will seek socialization in this next iteration of the internet, it marks it.

We've been discussing for months that social media's troubles will be amplified in this virtual world. Experts told Insider that polarization, divisiveness, and misinformation will grow tenfold.

Experts agreed that our push into the metaverse is worrisome, as well as the reliance we will have on such a fake landscape.

Being in the metaverse will be a bigger part of our lives than being in the outside world. There are many things that are frightening about that.