{"id":12616,"date":"2021-08-20T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=12616"},"modified":"2021-08-20T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:19:58","slug":"metaverse-why-silicon-valley-is-betting-on-making-this-dystopian-sci-fi-idea-a-reality-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=12616","title":{"rendered":"Metaverse: Why Silicon Valley is betting on making this dystopian sci-fi idea a reality &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/210804124201-facebook-metaverse-oculus-vr-sets-file-restricted-super-tease.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"181\" \/>Facebook has many pressing problems, from proposed antitrust legislation to accusations that the company is contributing to vaccine misinformation. But when CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined a recent conference call with analysts to discuss its latest quarterly results, much of the focus was on something far removed from those issues: the metaverse. During the hour-long call, the metaverse was mentioned nearly two dozen times.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/08\/tech\/metaverse-explainer\/index.html\">Metaverse: Why Silicon Valley is betting on making this dystopian sci-fi idea a reality &#8211; CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has many pressing problems, from proposed antitrust legislation to accusations that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,772],"class_list":["post-12616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arvr","tag-facebook","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}