Everyone continues stating they don’t want to live in the metaverse, which Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg can’t seem to shake. Amazon’s head of devices, David Limp, said last week that he doesn’t want to live in a virtual world 24 hours a day, or even a few hours a day.
Limp echoed similar sentiments in an interview with the Financial Times last month, when he spent the majority of his time promoting his vision of ambient computing — the idea that computers are everywhere — as he has done for the past year and a half.
Limp was asked what he thought about the metaverse when appearing at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival. While he believes that “some type of place-shifting” will occur in the future, he is more interested in technology that “improves the here and now.” Even with modern technology like phones and wireless headphones, he claimed it can be difficult to connect with his children, even while they are in the same house. “I’d like to work on technologies that raise people’s heads, allow them to appreciate the real world around them, and make family life more social.”
He also said that defining the phrase “metaverse” was very impossible: “If I asked these few hundred folks what the metaverse was, we’d get 205 different answers.”
We don’t have a standard definition since it means different things to different people.” Mark Zuckerberg has tried to explain what he means by “metaverse,” but he’s quite long on vision and short on specific facts at this moment — though he does say that augmented reality glasses will play a key part.
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