{"id":11819,"date":"2021-12-11T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11819"},"modified":"2021-12-18T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T01:49:44","slug":"the-new-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/11\/the-new-present\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/is-metaverse-the-next-big-thing-11638824007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>from The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is the Metaverse Really the Next Big Thing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Its advocates say more immersive interfaces will increase our sense of presence. I think they have their definitions wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By\u00a0Steven Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-447909?width=860&amp;height=573\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to an avatar of himself during a live-streamed presentation about the company\u2019s rebranding from Facebook. PHOTO: VIA REUTERS<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg would like you to be a little more present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the message that the Facebook founder hammers home in one of the most elaborate concept videos ever produced by a tech company: an 80-minute video rolling out his company\u2019s vision of \u201cthe metaverse,\u201d which Mr. Zuckerberg believes is the next paradigm shift in computing. The video\u2014and Facebook\u2019s decision to re-christen itself with the new corporate name Meta Platforms Inc. \u2014marked a fitting endpoint for a year in which the somewhat murky concept of the metaverse became one of the most hyped buzzwords in technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s primary complaint about the existing interfaces we use today is that they aren\u2019t immersive enough. When we interact with our friends or colleagues virtually, we\u2019re experiencing a heavily mediated version of them\u2014email threads, text messages, grainy Zoom videos with choppy audio. And all of that interaction is compressed through a two-dimensional screen, often the size of a pack of playing cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cScreens\u2026can\u2019t deliver that deep feeling of presence,\u201d he says at one point in the video. \u201cPresence is the defining quality of the metaverse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/is-metaverse-the-next-big-thing-11638824007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal Is the Metaverse Really the Next Big Thing? Its advocates say more immersive interfaces will increase our sense of presence. I think they have their definitions wrong. By\u00a0Steven Johnson Mark Zuckerberg would like you to be a little more present. That\u2019s the message that the Facebook founder hammers home in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}