touch bringing the metaverse to life and 15 years after we first took you onboard this magic school bus, how it has inspired america s next generation of scientists announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone in a trip the white house fears is fraught with risk and viewed by china as a challenge to its sovereignty, house speaker nancy pelosi is beginning a new day in taiwan, arriving overnight aboard a u.s. military vip transport to the self-governing island, which china considers its territory. the speaker defying strong warnings against the visit from china s president xi as well as white house concerns about potential military confrontations speaker pelosi becoming the highest ranking member of congress to travel to taiwan since 1997 in an op-ed just ahead of her short notice visit pelosi calling out china s accelerating aggression and affirming that america stands with taiwan as it defends itself and freedom andrea mitchell now wit
back now with our series inside the metaverse. many believe it s the technology that will shape the future, and while we re starting to see what the future looks like, our gadi schwartz also wanted to know what it will feel like reporter: the metaverse today is still just an idea starting to take shape with games like robox or meta s horizon world giving us glimpses with virtual spaces where people can interact with what avatars could look like what about what it could feel like will we be wearing body suits and running in omni directional treadmills what we want to do in this is actually capture your whole body so you actually are physically present. reporter: the answer might be a lot less intrusive according
According to the latest buzz, the metaverse will change everything about how we interact with each other. While potentially true, we should heed some warnings.