right wing ideology. those are our top stories this hour. now on bbc news, click. this week, metaverse marc tells real marc how it is. you had help from the likes of me the trimmer, younger looking virtual version of you that has helped with all of these stories on the telly. it s true. seven decades on, facial recognition recognises one holocaust survivor with a photo from her past. seven decades on, facial recognition reunited one holocaust survivor with a photo from her past. yeah, that is me, for sure. and spencer meets the robot doing improvised comedy. but unlike you humans, i can learn from my mistakes. ha ha ha. don t laugh this is serious stuff. whether we know it or not, whether we feel it or not, we are all connected. we are all made from the same stuff. and the testing ground here in london is a brief reminder of that. this collaboration between artists and scientists at king s college london is an illustration of how our physical and digital environments c
ultimately, this technology is about people and our connection to each other. ..as we prepare to exist in more than one place at a time. if the hope is to be believed, we are about to enter a whole if the hype is to be believed, we are about to enter a whole new virtual universe. but i think it s potentially misunderstood, misadvertised and pretty unknown right now. it s the metaverse, but what is it? yeah, who knows? is it the 3d internet? is it a cluster of virtual spaces? or is itjust cyberspace from the 1990s? this whole thing has been muddled further by facebook, which liked the idea so much that it renamed itself meta possibly so that when we think about the metaverse, we think of them. so many questions but so few definitive answers, but marc cieslak is trying to enlighten us. in the last few years, we ve ave heard lots about the metaverse and how it s going to change our lives online. i ve made several stories
where we feel a sense of presence with the people around us. right now, as we are doing this radio and video presentation, we are on zoom, looking at each other on 2d flat screens and in some kind of metaverse world perhaps we would feel a little bit more present with each other as we interact and move from space to space. nicola millard, principal innovation partner at bt, this does sound all just a bit dystopian, doesn t it? it is true that the metaverse did come from dystopian science fiction, i m a massive science fiction geek as well as a social scientist. i m interested in how technology and people interact but snow crash is the origin of the metaverse and to be honest i tend to describe it as the 3d internet. and it s notjust the digital bit, i think there is the intersection with the real world that we need to think about as well. typically, people do think of the metaverse as a snow crash, readyplayer one,
world perhaps we would feel a little bit more present with each other as we interact and move from space to space. nicola millard, principal innovation partner at bt, this does sound all just a bit dystopian, doesn t it? it is true that the metaverse did come from dystopian science fiction, i m a massive science fiction geek as well as a social scientist. i m interested in how technology and people interact but snow crash is the origin of the metaverse and i described honest i tend to describe it as the 3d internet. and it s notjust the digital bit, i think there is the intersection with the real world that we need to think about as well. crash, readyplayer one, the ultimate dystopian vision would be the matrix as well. this is the problem, it s all the science geeks pushing us toward this new future? i thin.it really tryied to move from that 2d static,
which may sound thrilling to some people but may be alarming to others. where we feel a sense of presence with the people around us. right now, as we are doing this radio and video presentation, we are on zoom, looking at each other on 2d flat screens and in some kind of metaverse world perhaps we would feel a little bit more present with each other as we interact and move from space to space. nicola, this does sound alljust a bit dystopian, doesn t it? it is true that the metaverse did come from dystopian science fiction, i m a massive science fiction geek as well as a social scientist. i m interested in how technology and people interact but snow crash is the origin of the metaverse and i described it as the 3d internet. it s notjust the digital bit, i think there is the intersection with the real world that we need to think about as well. typically, people do think