there s quite a few people that have got fatigued by having to have video chat meetings and things of that nature, and that they realise they now crave human contact. human communication is about 5% speech, is about 95% everything else, right? and instead of having a person next to me having a working one on one, i can have the avatar version of that person, one on one next to me. so it changes completely the. ..you know, call it screen fatigue we are feeling today. the big question, though, is will people embrace this new vision for our online lives? i think it depends on the specific application. we ve seen in gaming lots of people really do enjoy those experiences. would you want to sit in a virtual office as an avatar? i m less sold on that idea. it seems the metaverse is coming, but its success rests solely in our hands. marc cieslak, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett.
chislack has been exploring it. so, what actually is the metaverse? well, if we think of the internet as something that we look at, the metaverse is a version of the internet that we are inside. i d say there are examples of the metaverse already, if you look at video games. i think a lot of people see the future metaverse as expanding on that experience to include not just gaming but maybe things like a digital workspace or digital events, digital socialising. the idea is that we will experience the metaverse as an avatar, a virtual version of ourselves that we control as we explore this new online frontier. companies like ready player me and oz already have tools to create avatars for a coming metaverse. creations which, in my case, are a slightly younger and trimmer version of the real thing.
grave issues over the integrity and inclusivity the racial bullying and harassment of azeem rafiq casts grave issues over the integrity and inclusivity of english cricket in yorkshire specifically but across the game generally. england s captain knows the context. it s obviously been very difficult but ultimately when you are out here you are looking to concentrate on the job at hand and we throw everything into that but also address what s happening and hopefully we can, you know, from it we can move forward as a sport. this series doesn t really need any extra height. history has it all. right now, it is all level and everything is friendly. experience tells us both those situations may soon change. joe wilson, bbc news. the company that owns facebook recently changed its name to meta. why? because it says it s transforming itself from a social media firm into a company of the metaverse. facebook is not the only tech giant to dive into the metaverse. but what does it actually mean
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andrew bosworth is from meta, the company formerly known as facebook. we talked all matters metaverse using virtual reality headsets, appearing as avatars. ok, so here we are in what might be considered a representation of what the metaverse could be. there s a lot of online hatred out there, a lot of online abuse and misinformation and things of that nature. how are you going to avoid those kinds of experiences seeping into the metaverse? do you really want the system, or a person standing by, listening in? but if the conversation is happening in real time, then how can we modify content without listening? and so i think we have a privacy trade off against. if you want to have a high degree of content safety, well, that trades off against privacy. microsoft s adapted its workplace meeting software for the metaverse, and will introduce the ability to appear as an avatar next year, explains developer alex kipman.