In July 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook's transformation
from a social network to a metaverse. He announced to employees
that now they are not just creating software for social interaction,
but striving to make a virtual world. Microsoft spoke about such
plans - a preliminary version of the Mesh platform is already
available. With the help of virtual reality glasses, you can connect
with colleagues and hold a meeting, moving together to different
meeting rooms or interacting with three-dimensional computer
objects. Zuckerberg wants users of messengers, video calling and
collaboration programs to communicate not only in their ecosystem,
but also to be able to exchange information between different
software. The user does not have to master new communication
channels - the metaverse needs a regular Internet. All available
technologies form augmented reality (XR) - a conditional virtual
and real space, the way of interaction with which determines the
capabilities of the device. The developers call immersiveness the
determining factor. The device can either only supplement the
environment with objects, or completely replace them. For
communication, the basic scenario is the joint pastime of people
who are physically far from each other. IT companies that have
helped find former classmates and forge connections have created
ecosystems in which millions of people chat, video, and play games.
Facebook is faced with the task of uniting all the content of the social
network, generated by both ordinary users and media corporations.
Mark Zuckerberg suggests leaving the stage of mobility, when the
same content can be received from different devices, and get into a
synchronized environment, where users will feel each other.
In other words, a global village will become a global family. And
anyone who wants to can interfere with your privacy, violating
fundamental rights and freedoms. And this is not important to the
communists. The main thing is to put everything under centralized
control, an anonymous bureaucracy, as Karl Marx bequeathed.
Welcome to the new communism!
