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Join me for GerdTalks#9 May 26 6pm CET. New Realities: AR, MR, VR and the Metaverse.

In this episode of GerdTalks, I will address both the positive i.e. the possibly 'heavenly' aspects of this development as well as the negative i.e. more 'hellish' trappings that may occur if we aren't careful (see the current social media debates on disinformation), and will outline what it all means for marketers, communications, e-commerce, and business as well as life in general, in the next 5-7 years. I examine the concept of the Metaverse from a variety of angles, and will make some recommendations on how to get involved (or not).

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Facebook’s plans to augment reality are as dystopian as they are smart (via TheVerge)

“Facebook didn’t shy away from the marketing opportunities AR provides. In fact, it embraced the idea that you could hover your viewfinder over a restaurant and be told its Yelp rating, or find messages your friends leave you in public locales by peering through the camera lens on Facebook’s app. It seems clear that for every consumer benefit AR provides, there will also be a corporate one designed to exploit our attention, extract our wants and needs, and attempt to sell us products.”

Facebook’s plans to augment reality are as dystopian as they are smart
https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15375694/facebook-augmented-reality-dystopian-future-f8-2017
via Instapaper


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