Excerpt Show: Facebook's Metaverse

(00:00:00) Intro on the state of extended reality(00:09:04) Intro on Facebook(00:10:33) A man named Luckey and his Oculus — the origin story of the Meta Quest(00:20:50) Mark Z buys the Oculus, gets super excited about the Metaverse, and explains how great it will be(00:26:35) What you can do in the Metaverse(00:33:30) The scope of Meta's investment in the Metaverse(00:41:00) Opinion on why the Quest and Metaverse just aren't good enough(00:48:02) Meta appears to start shifting its focus from the Quest to AI glasses(00:53:41) Assessing the world of extended reality(01:03:28) Thoughts on what it will take to make XR a cultural phenomenon(01:12:20) Show closing(01:17:30) Post showThe Meta Quest is the gateway to the Metaverse. It is amazing. But is it amazing enough? For this excerpt episode, we extracted from our extended reality series the story of Facebook's Metaverse from the beginning, when a man named Luckey created his Oculus VR headset, through his selling it for 2 billion dollars to Facebook, and then explore Mark Zuckerberg's vision of, and obsession with, the Metaverse, which he claimed would change the world. We also look at the hardware of the Quest, why it isn't becoming a cultural phenomenon, and what it would take to get everyone into the "Matrix".