Hey, welcome to click. Let me hit you straightaway with a buzzword that you might have heard being thrown around recently. Lara, are you ready for a buzzword . Always ready. Ok the metaverse. What do you think of the idea . Ah, mark Zuckerbergs Vision that it wont be long before were all working, playing and living in this whole virtual universe. It reminds me of Second Life from about 15 years ago, remember that . Yeah, i do, i do. This was an early realisation of the Sci Fi Idea thats been around for as long as i can remember. But the Tech Wasnt up to it then. It wasnt, but of course things have moved along. We look a lot better online and we used to, i have to say. I guess it balances out the ageing bit. But the last 18 months have felt a bit like living in a virtual world, so i got mixed feelings about this because is this actually the last thing people want right now . Or could it potentially help with some of the isolation and other challenges . Well, zuckerberg certainly seems to think were ready. Hes now talking about facebook evolving from a social Media Company into a metaverse company, which begs the question what are you on about, mark . Well, here with metaverse ioi, Marc Cieslak invites you to enrol in click� s metaversity. The metaverse has been described as what comes after the internet. In its simplest terms, its a social hub where users can interact with one another as avatars 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 in their normal life but within that platform. Almost like the movie ready player one, in a way. This is the oasis. Its a place where the limits of reality are your own imagination. Steven spielbergs 2018 Movie Adaptation of ernest Kleins Novel of the same name tells the tale of a downtrodden Teen Hero who escapes the dystopian sprawl of a near Future America by spending as much time as possible online in a multiplayer virtual world a place which mashes up characters and Pop Culture themes from movies, comics and games. It was another Sci Fi Novel that coined the phrase metaverse, though neal stephenson� s 1992 book snow crash, which also has a hero whos got a Crummy Light who escapes a crummy life who escapes into a virtual world, the metaverse. Hollywood Style Vr does sort of exist today, championed by an australian outfit cold zero latency. The closest that we have to free roaming vr is this spatial Virtual Reality Set Up from a company called meatspace vr. I have a backpack here which contains a computer, a vr headset, and this rifle, 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 in a Mindbending Aztec Temple in an experience called engineerium. I dont have any sensation that the floor is moving, but my Brain Kind of thinks that it is. I can sample Shooting Stuff in the Vr Version of Blockbuster Action Franchise far cry. That was intense 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 bartle was there at the Very Dawn Of Multiplayer Experiences in 1978. He was one of the brains behind the worlds first multiplayer virtual world, the Text Adventure multi user dungeon, or mud. Now a professor of Computer Game Design at university of essex, bartles believes theres 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 multiverses, which are realities that you can move between, so theyre 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, its self contained. Something like roblox, or roblox, however you want to pronounce it, is a multiverse. Your character, you can move from one interior world to another interior world. The metaverse, however, means that you can move from one universe to another universe. So you can in theory have a character in a metaverse which will move from World Of Warcraft to Eve Online to final fantasy xiv. Um, thats 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 theres 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. They were information providers, they called themselves. Ultimately it didnt work. They had to accept that the internet was a standalone platform for communicating. But the metaverse, thats another thing entirely, because if you control the platform, then you control all that goes on within it. So if everybody did pile into roblox and they did all build all their worlds in roblox, then roblox would own the metaverse. Fortunes rise and fall in the world of technology. Companies taking those first steps down a long road to creating the metaverse might not even be around when and if the idea becomes a reality. Come on, where are you at . These are the first facebook glasses, a partnership with the Luxury Eyewear Brand Ray Ban. Its 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. Record scratch. These are basicallyjust a pair of glasses with cameras on them. Theyre actually very similar to the Snapchat Spectacles that were released in 2016, although every time i mentioned that to facebook, they insisted this is a very different product. To use them, you press the button to take a video, press and hold to take a photograph, and you can also use Voice Commands like hey, facebook, take a video. There are also some built in speakers so you can use them to listen to music or make phone calls, although 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. Now, the idea behind these is that you can leave your phone in your bag but still have a way to capture little moments hands free as and when they arise. And i quite like that as a concept. So taking it at face value, i tried them out over the weekend. 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 Backup Option of meeting a friend for coffee in the park. The specs record these square videos and nothing is automatically posted to facebook or livestreamed. Instead, you download the clips at the end of the day and you can post them wherever you like. Facebook says one Use Case is if you have children, and i can see that being useful because you can put your phone away but still capture some nice moments. I took this video of a dog taking a swim and i think the footage looks pretty good. Heres the same moment captured on my smartphone. I think the Smartphone Version looks better. Lots of people have questions about privacy, and i can see why theyve branded these Ray Ban stories rather than facebook glasses or insta specs. Ultimately, if somebody� s inclined to take hidden footage in a changing room, they can do that with a phone already, they dont need to spend 300 on a pair of glasses. But even so, i thought they might be a bit more obvious when recording video, because they do just look like an ordinary pair of Ray Bans. There is an led that lights up when youre recording, but maybe its too subtle. My housemate thought it was just a reflection on the glasses. It could have been a red flashing recording light. And in comparison, the snapchat specs were a lot more obvious when recording. So i called facebook� s head of ar and vr, andrew bosworth, to ask him about privacy. I mean, i think to some degree we deal with this today. Youve got Mobile Phones that people have out there that all have cameras on them, and so there is a degree to which our goal was to be, you know, at least more overt than what people are doing today with their phones. So i think theres a lot more opportunities really for bystanders to know. And this Wasnt Something we left to chance. We knew this was one of the most important things get right. Important things to get right. Theres been a lot of talk about facebook bringing out full Augmented Reality Glasses with the display in 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 were going to wear in the future . And this is really our first foray into putting something on somebody� s face. And were really excited about it and seeing how people react to it. I think its a great product, ive been using it myself, but its the first in a series of products that give people more functionality and more capability through a pair of glasses. That was chris talking to boz at facebook. How weird. I really was expecting those glasses to be Augmented Reality Glasses, werent you . Yes, its not like the technology doesnt exist. Theres even those smart Swimming Goggles where you get your data in real time underwater. I know, right . So maybe the tech just isnt quite compact enough for real glasses just yet. I tell you what, though, in the full Length Version of this Weeks Programme you can see something thats even more Sci Fi than the metaverse and augmented reality. Go and watch it on iplayer right now. Thats it from the short version. Throughout the week, you can keep up with us on social media, find us on youtube, instagram, Facebook And Twitter bbcclick. Thanks for watching, and well see you soon. Bye bye. It has been a fine day across much of the uk, very wet and northern scotland, using overnight, a lot of cloud, increasingly light and patchy Rain And Hill fog sinking south across scotland. Elsewhere mainly dry, clear spells and temperatures a little lower in recent nights, fresher and easierfor sleeping. Enter tomorrow a lot of cloud to begin in scotland, some rain from the east, pushing into parts of north east england, The Cloud increasing but brightening for Western Scotland and dry in northern ireland, sunny spells into the midlands as well into East Anglia and the South East, some rain in the North Coast of Cornwall And Devon but into wales, some rain to move on as a day goes on into the evening, may be pushing into the West Midlands and parts of north west england. Temperatures a little lower, still No 20s and East Anglia and South East england. This is bbc news. The headlines at seven. Commemoration services have taken place across the united states of america, 20 years since the nine 11 terror attacks. The names of the almost 3000 victims were read out at events in new york, washington and pennsylvania. Bell rings six moments of silence have been held, marking the times each of the four hijacked planes crashed and when the World Trade Center buildings collapsed on that day in 2001. Former president s clinton and obama joined Joe Biden in new york, as George W Bush spoke in pennsylvania, calling for people to come together much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment. That leaves us worried about our nation and our future together