Near future
No Result
View All Result
February 6 2023
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Inland solutions
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • H+
Understand, anticipate, improve the future.
CES2023 / Coronavirus / Russia-Ukraine
Near future
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Inland solutions
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • H+

Understand, anticipate, improve the future.

No Result
View All Result
Technology

Facebook Unveils Workrooms: VR Business Meetings. Caruccio but no, thanks

Workrooms, Facebook's new virtual reality workplace, saddens me a little for the future. But that's my problem.

READ THIS IN:

EN CN FR DE JA PT RU ES
Share15Pin8Tweet9SendShare3ShareShare2
August 21 2021
Gianluca RiccioGianluca Riccio
⚪ 4 minutes

When Zuckerberg talks about something it is because he has studied it for a long time. And so Facebook gave us a first look this week of that "metaverse" which the CEO regards as "the successor to the Internet," which his $ 354 billion company will embrace into Toto.

Remember Facebook Horizon? That virtual reality platform that I told you about (among the first in Italy) long ago? Well, Big F gave birth "Workrooms", a system of working environments. Virtual reality meeting rooms, my friends.

Another step forward for an internet not simply to look at, but to cross. A step consisting of attending a business meeting with a virtual reality viewer. What did you expect? The vanguard of the next phase starts with work, yes sir.

Workrooms
Image from a work session on Workrooms

Workrooms, or "Primum: grind"

This launch of Workrooms brings me to two grim considerations.

The first: it is the realization that the “utopian” metaverse of science fiction (a mix of physical and virtual in a shared online space) is a sad little office enclosed by floating whiteboards. The metaverse is the "office verse". And "the office verse" is boring. Meetings are boring. Is it true or not? There.

The article continues after the related links

DARPA launches MAGIC AI, augmented reality glasses for military doctors

The new Meta rules on anti-Russian hate speech will be toxic

The second: like so many innovations passed off as magnificent changes, this "internet incarnate" that Zuckerberg is promoting is (for now) anything but revolutionary. We were promised flying cars and a VR whale jumping off a basketball court. What I see is just another way to attend business meetings that I am already tired of attending.

Yes, I bet Workrooms is expensive to use. Does it change our life? I do not know. I do not think so. "A different kind of productivity experience" isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the "metaverse".

The steps forward of the colossus of Menlo Park

Workrooms
The "neural bracelet" developed by Facebook

Earlier this spring Facebook revealed a wearable wrist device and a device capable of deciphering neuronal impulses from the brain to the hand. This was science fiction stuff! I like this! Not Workrooms, amigo. Not business meetings. Nobody wants more business meetings, right? (like clinging desperately to the last days of vacation).

And yet Andrew Bosworth, Facebook's AR / VR manager and leader of the new "metaverse" team, he is enthusiastic about it:

I think Workrooms could be the most intense VR application out there, in terms of experience, immediacy and usability.

Andrew Bosworth

Maybe it's just my problem that I feel sad about the fact that the currently more ambitious and "intense" VR experience is just a slightly better way to discuss yet another briefing with a client.

And then, when it comes to Facebook, Workrooms raises the thorny question you-know-you

A common criticism of Facebook's forays into new technologies is the company's lousy track record on privacy.

If we can't trust Facebook on social media, which we use to say good morning (kafféé?) To high school friends, how can we trust if the interface becomes the cameras we install in our homes, or the headphones we put on our faces?

If the idea of ​​Facebook processing videos of your family conversations gets on your nerves, think of Workrooms and business meetings where confidential or proprietary information could be discussed ...

Anyway, for now, there is something that terrifies me much more than the idea of ​​someone violating my privacy.

What if, much more simply, this "real internet" was just a bore?

Time will tell.

Tags: FacebookVR

To submit articles, disclose the results of a research or scientific discoveries write to the editorial staff

Most read of the month

  • I tested for you GPTZero, the weapon against the invasion of automatic texts.

    442 Shares
    Share 176 Tweet 110
  • 'AI lawyer' to assist client in a lawsuit: first time in the world

    1368 Shares
    Share 547 Tweet 342
  • Akio Toyoda has an idea: instead of new cars, we convert existing ones

    369 Shares
    Share 147 Tweet 92
  • Giant wind turbines like skyscrapers, a new study makes them possible

    315 Shares
    Share 126 Tweet 79
  • 27 jobs that will disappear within 50 years

    2836 Shares
    Share 1134 Tweet 709

Enter the Telegram channel of Futuroprossimo, click here. Or follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon e LinkedIn.

The daily tomorrow.


Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

FacebookTwitterInstagramTelegramLinkedInMastodonPinterestTikTok
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Gadgets
  • concepts
  • Design
  • Medicine
  • Spazio
  • Robotica
  • Work
  • Inland solutions
  • Energy
  • Edition Francaise
  • Deutsche Ausgabe
  • Japanese version
  • English Edition
  • Portuguese Edition
  • Русское издание
  • Spanish edition

Subscribe to our newsletter

  • The Editor
  • Advertising on FP

© 2022 Near future - Creative Commons License
This work is distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

No Result
View All Result
Understand, anticipate, improve the future.
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Inland solutions
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • H+