https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkp47y/metaverse-company-to-offer-immortality-through-live-forever-mode
It's amazing to see the realization of a cautionary tale done so uncritically.
Deadass whichever nerd that came up with this probably watched the Black Mirror episode and said "hey, everything was fine before she bought the flesh puppet! let's just stop before that and it's perfect"
Ngl it’d be kinda cool to do a bong rip with my digital clone grandpa
This is your dead grandparent, I love you, and I’m proud of you, but I’d be more proud if you bought tickets to see Sonic 2. Do it for me. “
Somnium Space has also invested in and partnered with Teslasuit, a company with no relation to Elon Musk that is developing a full-body haptic suit for VR
This article is shit and reads like an ad. I’m disappointed it was published as a non critical interview that is basically a hype machine.
Haptic such are such a fucking pie in the sky idea, too cause there's pretty much no way to resolve the fact that it either feels like someone slightly tapping you no matter what it is or it does actually have enough kinetic energy to do different things and at that point it's a suicide vest with safety features
Max Headroom did this in the 80s and it got almost none of the details wrong.
Techbros aren't just creepy sociopaths: they have no imagination.
Great, love my dessicated info-corpse to be instantiated as a talking 3d skull running on a third-tier chatbot.
Definitely my idea of immortality and not some sort of grotesque zombie me at best.
We can't even get a basic chatbot to work consistently, but you're claiming to be able to create a virtual human being? suuuuuuuure :fidel-sarcastic:
It feels flat out unethical for a journalist to just uncritically repeat all this, this is not journalism this is advertising.
“That's why VR is so powerful,” he said. “You will not fool it.”
I find this line particularly funny coming directly after they brag about how the computer is only able to accurately guess the user out of a sample size of 500 and it still gets it wrong 5% of the time.
Its also particularly funny because what he just talked about doesn't really have anything to do with VR shit, its about machine learning and AI analysing data that just happens to come from VR users.
Its either just techbro buzzword advertising or he's stupid, or both.
Various kinds of uncles are now able to haunt your thanksgiving dinners for all eternity, but you also get the option to "live on" (as in, be made a perverse mockery off) for all eternity in the form of your very spiciest takes.
no wait, this is just a scam where techbro ghouls try to fleece grieving people for venture capital.
I read a sci fi book, I think one of the Culture books, where if people needed to communicate but were too far away for space travel they'd send a high-level simulation of the person as information through hyperspace to have the conversation, then send the results back to the original person. Except sometimes the high level simulation would decide it wanted to keep doing it's own thing, so you'd end up with a fork of the person.
cant send a text message but can sent a whole enslaved copy of yourself, damn
I might be wrong but it's in one of his non-Culture series - Matter.
So is Metaverse something that might actually catch on? I see a lot of ads for it but no real enthusiasm from people that aren't tech bros or libertarians.
I haven't seen much enthusiasm besides people who think "this is gonna be worth a ton of money one day, better get in early"
If the fat cats that run this world can force it to exist, then it probably will, but otherwise nobody cares
It's literal air. Everyone knows it. Even the people who work on it realize it's a bullshit job and focus on making something that will shine in the rubble.
There’s already news articles about children being scammed “on The Metaverse”
Like amber2 said and I think I've said here before, it won't catch on until you wake up one morning and it's already everywhere, required for your basic social functions, reinforced by integration w/ your workplace, etc. because regardless of how cringe you think it is and how much it gets made fun of if there is a chance for someone to make a shit ton of money off of it they will make it catch on.
