Facebook had said that it had intended to use CTRL Lab’s neural interface technology. The startup was also exploring ways for humans to communicate with machines using brain signal. Steve Quake of the Chan Zuckerberg BioHub, Mark Zuckerberg said, “The goal is to eventually make it so that you can think something and control something in virtual or augmented reality.”įacebook recently acquired CTRL-Labs, a startup that was extensively working on neural interface platform.

These devices would allow users to control things in virtual or augmented reality. Zuckerberg said that he would like to develop brain-controlled wearable and implantable devices. CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday elaborated what he thinks about the new technology and its possible implementations. When the next letter arrived, we were informed that he was under the weather for more than a week.Mark Zuckerberg is serious about brain-reading tech, plans to use it for AR, VRįacebook is quite serious about developing brain-reading hardware and software. There were times when there were no letters for a while. A day after he took a flight from Thirvuananthapuram airport to Mumbai, then to Abu Dhabi, we used to get a one-liner telegram: ‘Arrived safely.” Then, after 15 days his first letter, describing the journey. My father went to Abu Dhabi from Kerala when I was five years old-in the early 70s. You’ll be able to spend more time on what matters to you, cut down time in traffic, and reduce your carbon footprint,” says Zuckerberg about the metaverse world his company is putting all its energy to build. This will open up more opportunity no matter where you live. “In this future, you will be able to teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the office without a commute, at a concert with friends, or in your parents’ living room to catch up. He says teleporting will become a reality in metaverse as one can move across different experience using different devices. Zuckerberg claims that in the metaverse, “you’ll be able to do almost anything you can imagine - get together with friends and family, work, learn, play, shop, create - as well as completely new experiences that don’t really fit how we think about computers or phones today”. That is why we are focused on building this,” he says. Feeling truly present with another person is the ultimate dream of social technology.

The defining quality of the metaverse will be a feeling of presence - like you are right there with another person or in another place. We call this the metaverse, and it will touch every product we build. “The next platform will be even more immersive - an embodied internet where you’re in the experience, not just looking at it. Now, Zuckerberg promises us that the future will be more than just sharing our videos. Our sounds and images crossed borders and timezones bringing people and places closer. We moved from writing letters to typing text to taking photos on phones, and once mobile phones with faster Internet became the norm, we began to share videos for better ‘experience’. We moved and moulded our life in sync with the way technology advanced. In his original Founder’s Letter, Zuckerberg wrote: “We don’t build services to make money we make money to build better services.” Much water has flowed under many technology bridges around the world, and ‘money’ has grown in its multifarious ways giving ‘services’ more meanings than just connecting people. It is interesting that Facebook has become Meta on the eve of International Internet Day, which is Oct. The metaverse is the next frontier in connecting people, just like social networking was when we got started,” he says.ĭespite Zuckerberg’s insistence that the name-change is to focus on the company’s vision of building technology that connects people, the social media is rife with comments that the rebranding is an attempt to distract people from the increasing negative and anti-trust reports about Facebook, especially after a couple of whistleblowers have made public the internal documents which show how Facebook had turned a blind eye some sensitive issues.

In our DNA, we build technology to bring people together. “Building social apps will always be important for us, and there’s a lot more to build. Over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company, and I want to anchor our work and our identity on what we’re building towards,” he adds. “Right now our brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything we’re doing today, let alone in the future.

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