But first on Bbc News its click. This week were putting on our next gen specs, hey, welcome to click. Let me hit you straightaway with a buzzword. You might� ve heard it being thrown around recently. Are you ready . Always ready. The metaverse. 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 do, i do. This was an early realisation of the Sci Fi Idea that has been around for as long as i can remember. But things have moved along. We look a lot better online. It balances out the Aging 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 and other challenges . Zuckerberg thinks we are ready. Hes talking about facebook evolving from a social Media Company into a Metaverse Company which begs question, what are on about, mark . Well, here with metaverse 101, mark invites you to enrole. The metaverse has been described as what comes after the internet. In its simplest terms it is a social hub where users can interact with Each Other as advertise across a host of digital worlds. Is any of this starting to sound familiar . A lot of companies are talking about creating a metaverse 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 friends, they can watch movies, 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 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 metaverse. The 1992 Snow Crash which also has a hero who has got a crummy life who escapes into a virtual world. The metaverse. It sort of exists 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 meet 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. 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 metaverse 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 metaverse. Ok, so the metaverse is 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 metaverse 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, however you want to pronounce it, is a multi verse and your character can move from one interior world to another interior world. The metaverse, however, means that you can go from one universe to another universe so you can, in theory, have a character in a metaverse 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. Games give us a glimpse of what a potential metaverse 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 metaverse, 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 all build all their worlds there then it would own the metaverse. So obviously the likes of google, microsoft would not like that to happen. They would like to be the one to own it. These 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. 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 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 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 put your phone away but still capture nice moments. I 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 looks better. 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 like an ordinary pairof Ray Bans. Theres an led which 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 we knew this was one of the most important thing is to get right. There has been a lot of talk about facebook bringing out full Augmented Reality Glasses with a display on them. Is this just a sort of stopgap to get people used to the idea of everybody wearing Camera Glasses . 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 someone� s face 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. That was chris talking about facebook. I really wasnt expecting us glasses. It is not like that technology doesnt exist that there are a smart Swimming Goggles that give you real time data under water. I guess that take is not quite compact enough to fit inside normal glass quite yet. But maybe one 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. Thanks for watching and well see you soon. Goodbye. Hello and welcome to newswatch, coming up, is it to dangerous for Bbc Staff to be working in kabul . And was the death of Sarah Harding given too much prominence on Bbc News last weekend . Government proposals this week for overhauling the funding of Social Care in england were widely reported across Bbc News and reports like this. This is where the government reforms have to make a difference, they care Front Line when the pressure to support more people and to find enough staff were felt most acutely. 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