Time for click. This week putting on our next gen specs, strapping on our Brain-controls'>Brain Controls and entering the Meta Verse. Just another day in the office, really. Hey, welcome to click. Let me hit you straightaway with a buzzword. You might� ve heard it being thrown around recently. Are you ready . Are you ready . Always ready. Id make are you ready . Always ready. Id make the are you ready . Always ready. Id make the meta are you ready . Always ready. Id make the Meta Verse. Are you ready . Always ready. L Id Make the Meta Verse. What you think of the idea . Mark zuckerberg is version that it wont be long before we are working, playing and living in this whole virtual universe. It reminds me of Second Life from about 15 years ago, remember that . I about 15 years ago, remember that . ,. ,. ,. , that . I do, i do. This was an Early Realisation that . I do, i do. This was an Early Realisation of that . I do, i do. This was an Early Realisation of the that . I do, i do. This was an Early Realisation of the scifi Early Realisation of the Sci Fi Idea that has been around for as long as i can remember. The attack was not to it then. But things have moved along. We look a lot better online. It balances out the 18 bit at the last 18 months i felt a bit like living in a virtual world so i have got mixed feelings about this because this is actually the last thing that people want right now . Could it potentially help with some of the isolation under the challenges . Zuckerberg thinks we are ready. Youre talking about facebook evolving from a social Media Company into a Meta Verse company which begs the question, what are on about, mike . Well, here with metaverse 101, well, here with metaverse101, marking invites you to involve any click� s met at university. What did Pop Star Ariana grande nae, Facebook Ceo and a Games Ceo and Video Games all have in common . They have all recently been cited as have altered the Meta Verse. The Meta Verse has been described as what comes after the internet. In its simplest terms it is a social hardware users can interact with Each Other as advertise across a host of digital worlds. Is any of this starting to sound familiar . fix, worlds. Is any of this starting to sound familiar . To sound familiar . A lot of companies to sound familiar . A lot of companies are to sound familiar . A lot of companies are talking to sound familiar . A lot of. Companies are talking about creating a Meta Verse in that they want to become a platform where people can exist at all times. They want to create social spaces where people can come and hang out with their fans, they can watch movies, they can do everything that they can do everything that they were doing a normal life but within that platform. Almost like a particular movie, in a way. This is the oasis. It is a place this is the oasis. It is a place where the limits of Reality Place where the limits of reality are your own imagination. Stephen Spielbergs Adaptation of the novel of the same name tells the tale of a downtrodden Teen Hero who escapes the dystopian spool of the near Future America by spending as much time as possible online in a multiplayer virtual world. A place which matches up characters and Pop Culture themes from movies, comics and games. It was another Sci Fi Novel that coined the phrase Meta Verse. The 1992 Snow Crash which also has a hero who has got a crummy life who escapes into a virtual world. The Meta Verse. Its the sort of Exist Today championed by an australian outfit. The closest we have to free roaming vr is this spatial Virtual Reality set up from a company cold meat space vr. I have a backpacker which contains a computer, a Vr Headset and this rival which has controllers in it. The headset looks for markers on the floor to figure out where it is in three dimensional space. Here, im solving puzzles and a mind bending Aztec Temple and an experience called engineering. I have the sensation that the floor is moving but may bring kind of things that it is. Ican i can shoot stuff in the Vr Version of the action franchise. With the headset and headphones on i am completely immersed in these virtual experiences. Part of the reason were hearing so much about the Meta Verse is because technology like this now exists. Richard was there at the Very Dawn Of Multiplayer Experiences in 1978. He was one of the Brains behind the words first multiplayer virtual world, the Text Adventure multi User Dungeon or mud. Now a professor of Computer Game Design at the university of essex, he believes there is a specific set of rules which define the idea of the Meta Verse. ,. ,. , , verse. Ok, so the Meta Verse is essentially verse. Ok, so the Meta Verse is essentially a verse. Ok, so the Meta Verse is essentially a marketing essentially a marketing concept. We have universes which are self contained realities, then we have Multi Verses which are realities that you can move between so they are effectively the same reality. And then we have a Meta Verse which is all one reality but it has got a whole bunch of other ones interconnected. So, as an example, something like World Of Warcraft is a universe, you cant take anything into or out of World Of Warcraft. It is self contained. Something like rocks, Howeveryou Self contained. Something like rocks, however you want to pronounce it, is a multi verse and your character can move from one interior world to another interior world. The Meta Verse, however, means that you can go from one universe to another universe so you can, in theory, have a character in a Meta Verse which would move from World Of Warcraft to Final Fantasy for and that is the theory. Whether it will work in practice is another matter. Need a pretty big space to experience vr as elaborately as there is but perhaps the Meta Verse will be experienced in different ways. Some would argue that the first seeds of the Meta Verse are being sown in contemporary Video Games. Earlier this Summer Ariana Grande became the latest performer to put on a series virtual concerts inside the popular online multiplayer game fortnight. So you make getting such high Quality Axis such a legitimising thing. It is really saying to the industry and beyond that that fortnight is notjust and beyond that that fortnight is not just a and beyond that that fortnight is notjust a game. It is a place for people to come together and the importance of thatis, together and the importance of that is, you know, drawing on these acts that are sort of outside the usual Gaming Stream like Ariana Grande. Shejoins outside the usual Gaming Stream like Ariana Grande. She joins a long list of items to play a gig in the game including djs. But so far Ariana Grande is probably the biggest and most Mainstream Act to perform in the game. 50 Mainstream Act to perform in the game Mainstream Act to perform in the name. ~. , the game. So i think the matter versus something the game. So i think the matter versus something that the game. So i think the matter versus something that is the game. So i think the matter versus something that is going | versus something that is going to get us closer to simulation and shared understandings with Each Other in a virtual space. Like never before. And i think thatis like never before. And i think that is something that we are at the very beginning of. It has become a word that it has become very popular lately. Were still defining it and thatis were still defining it and that is pretty exciting. I think everybody� s going to put their own take on it. Think everybodys going to put their own take on it. Their own take on it. Games live us their own take on it. Games give us a their own take on it. Games give us a glimpse their own take on it. Games give us a glimpse of their own take on it. Games give us a glimpse of what i their own take on it. Games give us a glimpse of what a| give us a glimpse of what a potential Meta Verse might look like but there is a bigger question driving the recent interest in this idea. And that is who or what will have control over the platform . Imagine back in the day when we had the internet there were companies vying to be the internet. There were about five of them in america. Information providers, they call themselves. Ultimately did work. They had to accept that the internet was stand alone platforms all communicating that the Meta Verse, that is another thing entirely because if you control the platform then you control all that goes on within it so if everybody did pile into one game and they did pile into one game and they did all build all their worlds there then it would own the Meta Verse. So obviously the likes of google, microsoft would not like that to happen. They would like to be the one to own it. They would like to be the one to own it they would like to be the one to own it. ~. ,. To own it. What we experienced over the last to own it. What we experienced over the last years to own it. What we experienced over the last years or to own it. What we experienced over the last years or so to own it. What we experienced over the last years or so in over the last years or so in particular over the last years or so in particular during the pandemic, is a recognition of the behaviours that are here. Virtual behaviours that are here. Virtual words are common, they are popular. There are diverse. We know are popular. There are diverse. We know at are popular. There are diverse. We know at that Meta Verse starts we know at that Meta Verse starts to we know at that Meta Verse starts to feel very real. Even if it ism starts to feel very real. Even if it is if it is. Fortnights Rise And Fall if it is. Fortnights Rise And Fall in if it is. Fortnights Rise And Fall in companies i if it is. Fortnights Rise And Fall in companies taking those first steps down the long road to creating the Meta Verse might not even be around when and if the idea becomes reality. Come on. Where are you . Reality. Come on. Where are ou . ,. , reality. Come on. Where are ou . , � you . Hello. I hope youre havin you . Hello. I hope youre having a you . Hello. I hope youre having a good you . Hello. I hope youre having a good week you . Hello. I hope youre having a good week and i you . Hello. I hope youre having a good Week And Welcome to the we can take. It is the weak twitter is testing a soft Blocking Feature which removes followers without letting them know. Apple have capability to store a Drivers Licenses and spot a viable Diet Plan which select songs to peoples tastes in music at the same time. 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These are the first Facebook Project very attractive. These i are the first facebook glasses. A partnership with the Luxury Eyewear Brand Ray Ban. It is no secret that facebook has been working on Augmented Reality Glasses that can project images into your eyes and these glasses do none of that. These are basicallyjust a pair of glasses with cameras in. There are actually very similar to the Snapchat Spectacles that were released in 2016 although every time i mention facebook they insisted this is a very different product. Do use them you press the button to take a video. Press and hold to take a photo and you can also use voice commands like, hey, facebook, take a video. There are also built in speaker so you can use them to listen to music or make Phone Calls are there when i tried that, on the noisy high street, they were nowhere near loud enough to be remotely useful. So im going to focus on the cameras. The cameras. The idea by these is that you can leave your phone in your bag but still the way to capture little moments hands free as and when they arise and i quite like that is arise and i quite like that is a concept so taking it at Face Value a try them out over the weekend and i met up with some friends. I went to a concert. I took loads of footage and then when i came to download it to my phone the glasses had corrupted. And all the footage was lost. So youre not getting any of that. Instead, heres my last minute Back Up Option of meeting a friend for coffee in the park. The specs recorded the park. The specs recorded the square videos and nothing is automatically posted to facebook or live stream. Instead, you download the clips at the end of the day and you can post them wherever you like. Facebook says one use is if you have children, and i can see that being fairly useful because you can be your phone away but still capture nice moments. It took a moment of this dog taking a swim and i think that is looks pretty good. It is the same moment captured on my smartphone and i think the Smartphone Version a greater selection of lenses on their and your bigger centre. With a Camera Glasses look ok and that was the only footage you had thats better than no footage. Now, idid you had thats better than no footage. Now, i did feel a bit silly wearing these and also take a video but they do version with clear lenses, sunglasses and some that transition between both. A lot people will have questions about privacy and i can see why theyre branded these Ray Ban stories rather than facebook glasses are insta specs. Ultimately, if Somebody Isnt going to take hidden Camera Footage are changing and they can do that with a phone already, they dont need to spend 300 on a pair of glasses but even so, thought they might be a bit more obvious when recording video because they do do spoke like an ordinary pair of Ray Bans. Nothing lights up when you are recording but my house made voter which is a reflection on the glasses. It could have been a red Flashing Recording might end in comparison the snapchat specs were a lot more obvious when recording. So i called facebook� s had a vr to ask him about privacy. You may come in, i think we deal with us today. We have got Mobile Phones that people all have cameras on them. And so there is a degree to which our goal is to be, you know, at least more overt than what people are doing today with their phones and i think we have achieved that goal. I mean, if you have your phone out you could be taking pictures with a visually no way for bystanders to know that youre doing that and people known to have the phones out. So i think the glasses are quite a bit more overt than that. You have an Audio Sound and i can take an explicit action is over i move my hand on my Temple And Press the button or have to use my voice to say, take a picture. If i have a neighbour that feature. So i think there is a lot more opportunity is really for bystanders to know and this Isnt Something we left to chance. We knew this was one of the most important thing is to get right. 0ne the most important thing is to get right. One thing that makes me feel really old is that they say when you ask people our age take a photo, and we gesture like this and if you asked teenagers they go like this. Going to take back this. Thats right. Absolutely. Right. Absolutely. There has been a lot right. Absolutely. There has been a lot of right. Absolutely. There has been a lot of talk right. Absolutely. There has been a lot of talk about been a lot of talk about facebook bringing out full Augmented Reality Glasses with Augmented Reality Glasses with a display on them. Is this just a display on them. Is this just a sort of stopgap to get people used to the idea of everybody wearing Camera Glasses . Yes. Wearing Camera Glasses . Yes, ou wearing Camera Glasses . Yes, you have wearing Camera Glasses . Yes, you have nailed wearing Camera Glasses . Yes, you have nailed it wearing Camera Glasses . Yes, you have nailed it chris. Wearing Camera Glasses . Yes, you have nailed it chris. I wearing Camera Glasses . Yes, you have nailed it chris. I was| you have nailed it chris. I was even going back a year we were talking about previous projects that we have had and we do have Ar Glasses in the pipeline. We really want to have a conversation, a dialogue with consumers around the world on, yeah, what are the standards and expectations they have for the types of computers that we are going to wear. In the future. And this is really our first foray into putting something on Someones Phase and were really excited about it and seeing how people react to it. And it is a great product and i have been using it myself but it is the first in a series of products that give people more functionality and more capability to prepare the glasses. 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Enough to fit inside normal glass quite yet. But maybe one da the glass quite yet. But maybe one day they will glass quite yet. But maybe one day they will enough glass quite yet. But maybe one day they will enough to day they will enough to interact with the matter various and speaking of interacting, weve been trying a whole new way of controlling things with whos marooned. So here i am with a strange band trapped in my head looking very proud of myself switching on a toy lightsaber. But, so what . Well, whilst it looks like a poor mans comic con, i am actually had to experience a feature of tech. It is all part of a new industry that wants technology to interface with our Brains. What could go wrong . But whilst im playing the star wars toys, Elon Musk is planning to create humans by simply implanting chips in their Brains. Theyve already released Footage Of A Monkey playing a Video Game with his mind and a real time link to the Neural Activity picked up from a chip implanted in a pick� s Brain. You dont need Brain-implants'>Brain Implants to control machines. Headsets like this that you control just machines. Headsets like this that you controljust by concentrating on them so all you need to do is strap on some headgear and use the power of your mind. In principle, it is quite straightforward. The easy centres on this Headset Measure electrical signals in your Brain, deciphering to mental states. Yourfocus and states. Your focus and calmness. 0nce states. Your focus and calmness. Once you reach the threshold for either reaction is triggered. All right, fine, switch on. Hey i switched on the phone. It is like technology telekinesis, isnt it . That is amazing. Yes, of course, we get a point where we can say like, turn the lights are. But to me that has never been what is exciting. By focusing on simply moving things with them i do think we take away from the real power of the technology which is being able to learn about our mind, being able to strengthen our mentalfaculties mind, being able to strengthen our mental faculties rather than just being able to do things so that we have to do less. The number one benefit we can bring to society and youngsters and the next generation is consciousness of mind. We have achieved far greater than any technology from the previous generation. Much of the Brain-computer-research'>Brain Computer Research has conditionally been to help people with restricted mobility and the breakthroughs prove that this could be a game changer. But now there are a whole host of headgear based nero companies springing up in the Consumer Space and one of thoseis the Consumer Space and one of those is a french Start Up Code next to to have created a headset that lets you Control Computer interfaces just by thinking about it. So really simply, this is not an Eeg Centre this is the back of your head. It measures the electrical activity in the visual cortex and detects what youre looking at. The visual cortex is the part of the Brain that processes what we see. When youre looking at specific points on the screen the sensor detects that increase in visual concentration and communicates with a button you want to push. A few demos show you whats possible. I can blow up Enemy Squares in games, and use my Mind Asa squares in games, and use my mind as a television remote control. But the simplest demo actually had the greatest impact. You are asked to enter a Pin Numberjust by focusing on the buttons to click and the feeling of control is astonishing. Wow. I feeling of control is astonishing. Wow. I see a totally exploding astonishing. Wow. I see a totally exploding with astonishing. Wow. I see a totally exploding with a l totally exploding with a combination of ar. So, in a few years from now, we will have Ar Glasses like your glasses right now they will have ar and they are going to allow you also to be in immersion with the environment by basically linking your Brain directly to the virtual contents and then you will be able to basically control anything virtual, anything augmented. Directly with your Brain. Share anything augmented. Directly with your Brain. Anything augmented. Directly with your Brain. Are drafted in my colleague with your Brain. Are drafted in my Colleague Paul with your Brain. Are drafted in my Colleague Paul to with your Brain. Are drafted in my Colleague Paul to get with your Brain. Are drafted in my Colleague Paul to get his l my Colleague Paul to get his thoughts. Go on, there we go. Yeah there we go. Are you actually doing this . Yeah, i think so, anyway. This is awesome. And its turned out that the key takeaway was not put to the headset on too tightly. Put to the headset on too ti. 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Ifi have got pins and needles in my scalp in and needles in my scalp in terms of what this might offer people with restricted Mobility And Cant move, Cant Use arms and cant move, Cant Use arms and the new ways to interface with technology then, look, potentially this is absolutely extraordinary owned with a wee bit of work, yes. But im tempering that with about that Ijust Tempering that with about that i just sat here and tempering that with about that ijust sat here and controlled things with my Brain and spread incredible. But things with my Brain and spread incredible. � , incredible. But despite some amazin incredible. But despite some amazing applications, incredible. But despite some amazing applications, therel amazing applications, there could be a dark side to this technology. The problem comes when we dontjust measure the activity in the Brain but we try to directly influence it. That means we could do things like read someones the law is all change their Perception Reality or even make them act against their free will. Mi; against their free will. My bi est against their free will. My biggest worry is mental privacy. You can imagine using them privacy. You can imagine using them for privacy. You can imagine using them for interrogation, for example. You ask a question just example. You ask a question just by example. You ask a question just by the image the person because just by the image the person because they can figure out what because they can figure out what the person is thinking. Technology companies have jumped Technology Companies have jumped into neuro taken a big way and jumped into neuro taken a big way and it jumped into neuro taken a big way and it also means that they are very way and it also means that they are very keen on getting their hands are very keen on getting their hands on are very keen on getting their hands on mental data. A are very keen on getting their hands on mental data. Are very keen on getting their hands on mental data. A new Raw Data. Hands on mental data. A new Raw Data and hands on mental data. A new Raw Data and i hands on mental data. A new Raw Data. And i think hands on mental data. A new Raw Data. And | think that hands on mental data. A new Raw Data. And i think that should data. And i think that should be protected. May sound far fetched but Elon Musk is already working towards writing to the Brain to augment Human Knowledge and they had taken control of a Mouses Mind and is campaigning for ethical frameworks and strict regulations. Frameworks and strict regulations. This type of technology regulations. This type of technology is regulations. This type of technology is so regulations. This type of| technology is so powerful regulations. This type of technology is so powerful this goes technology is so powerful this goes to technology is so powerful this goes to the heart of what makes us human goes to the heart of what makes us human which is the Human Mind us human which is the Human Mind this us human which is the Human Mind. This is the first time that mind. This is the first time that the mind. This is the first time that the humanity has technology that enables you to directly technology that enables you to directly tap into the mind in this directly tap into the mind in this regard another Privacy Issue this regard another Privacy Issue. This is the mother of all Privacy Issue. This is the mother of all Privacy Issues. This is your all Privacy Issues. This is your mental privacy. This is not going your mental privacy. This is not going to your mental privacy. This is not going to work, your mental privacy. This is not going to work, is your mental privacy. This is not going to work, is it . I your mental privacy. This is not going to work, is it . So why is there a danger that our base could be manipulated in the future, if my experience of Mind Control is anything to go by, we should be safe. At least for now. That was us. What a fascinating topic. Fascinating topic. Fascinating but frightening. Fascinating topic. Fascinating but frightening. I fascinating topic. Fascinating but frightening. I know. Fascinating topic. Fascinating i but frightening. I know. Would ou think but frightening. I know. Would you think about but frightening. I know. Would you think about it . But frightening. I know. Would you think about it . What but frightening. I know. Would you think about it . What are i you think about it . What are your thoughts . Thank you. And thatis your thoughts . Thank you. And that is aired for this week. This that is aired for this week. As ever, that is aired for this week. As ever. You that is aired for this week. Is ever, you can that is aired for this week. 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We are left with wet weather across Northern Scotland because of this trailing weather front. But behind that weather front, we shift the Wind Direction into the north and the northwest, so it freshens up, because at the moment, we still have that humidity. That will start to ebb away during saturday. But we also have that wet weather in the north. Its already been pretty wet in shetland, and by morning, widespread rain across the north, scotland some quite Heavy Rain as well. Elsewhere, the showers tending to easy away, but a Muggy Night again, 1a or 15. Lots of grey, misty, murky weather in northern and western areas, drizzle over the hills, some potential Hill Fog as well. But that cloud should break up, and so for england and wales, fewershowers, brighter weather, a bit more sunshine than we had during the day on friday. Still a scattering of showers for Northern Ireland, best chance of sunshine in the south and the south of scotland. But for the north of scotland, itjust continues to be a pretty wet affair. A real soaking rain, so well need to keep an eye on that for localised flooding. A little bit fresher in the north, but still quite warm in the sunshine in southern and eastern areas. And thats because we have got a Ridge Of High Pressure here. By the time our Weather System starts to drift southwards, it does peter out and eventually becomes drier for Northern Scotland under a Ridge Of High Pressure, but this is the Question Mark, what comes in from the west. But for sunday, you can see perhaps a little bit of cloud, a breeze and some rain for the Great North Runners here. Weve got a lot of dry runner elsewhere and it becomes drier for scotland and Northern Ireland than recent days, but its how far north and east this rain comes. Its giving us a headache at the moment. Looks like the southwest and wales will bear the brunt during the course of sunday. Further east, a little bit drier. But fresher, temperatures down on those of saturday. And then how far east it will push into monday . So, as i say, thats the big Question Mark at the moment. Elsewhere, high pressures bringing a lot of dry and settled weather. Yes, its fresher. But as ever, if you have plans for the next couple of days, this is Bbc News im tim willcox. Our top stories. As america prepares to mark 20 years since 9 11 the president calls for the country to come together. At our most vulnerable, and the Push And Pull of all that makes us human, in the battle for the soul of america, unity is our greatest strength. Lawyers for the woman whos accused Prince Andrew of Sexual Abuse claim theyve successfully served him with legal papers. And the battle of the teens the Build Up to the womens final of the us open