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Every time you mention this video, I will thank you for posting it!

It is a brilliant distillation of the commercialization of AR, and a "must watch" for all fanboys of the m-word.

Many of us saw the potential of the Internet, the WWW, and have lived long enough to see its trajectory from pure promise and world-changing potential, into mostly commercial milking medium.

I see no reason to assume that Zuck's vision will be any different.

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I wrote a blog post recently that touched on this very disappointment with the potential that was the Internet and how I hope that the metaverse is a new opportunity for that early creativity to be unleashed. However, in my mind that will require either decentralization or a different gatekeeper than Facebook.

That's what worries me. We can't do Ready Player One level immersion yet, but the Hyperreality level of AR is very close. About two more generations of Ray-Ban displays. And it's so Facebook.

Business opportunity: "METADWEEB.COM" is unregistered.

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