{"id":28491,"date":"2022-05-12T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/05\/12\/apple-ipod-creator-warns-the-metaverse-will-encourage-trolls\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:50:07","slug":"apple-ipod-creator-warns-the-metaverse-will-encourage-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/05\/12\/apple-ipod-creator-warns-the-metaverse-will-encourage-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPod creator warns the metaverse will encourage trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div >\n<p ><b >The creator of Apple&#8217;s iPod has warned of the so-called metaverse risks that could spawn more trolls and damage human interaction.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The virtual reality-based metaverse removes the ability &#8220;to look at the other person&#8217;s face,&#8221; Tony Fadell said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;When you put technology in between that human connection, the toxicity happens,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The Metaverse is an area of \u200b\u200bvirtual reality where people can create avatars of themselves to interact with others in online worlds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >It&#8217;s used to play games, but also in spaces like work and music concerts, and is often accessed through a virtual reality headset.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Mark Zuckerberg, co-creator and CEO of Facebook, is investing billions of dollars and hiring thousands of workers to create a metaverse. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<div >\n<ul >\n<li>What is the metaverse?<\/li>\n<li>Meta takes action against spooky behavior in virtual reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Facebook, which also owns Instagram, Whatsapp and Oculus, among others, changed the name of its parent company to Meta last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >While Mr Fadell said the technology behind the metaverse had merits: &#8220;When you&#8217;re trying to create social interaction and social connection, if you can&#8217;t look the other person in the face, you can&#8217;t see their eyes, which you don&#8217;t have in real humanistic ways.&#8221; the connection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >&#8220;It becomes unintermediate and you have an opportunity at that point to create more trolls, people who hide behind things and then use that to their advantage to get attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >He added: &#8220;We need to regain control of that human connection, we don&#8217;t need more technology between us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The tech giant Microsoft and Epic Games, the owner of the computer game Fornite, are also investing heavily in the Metaverse. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Microsoft is adding 3D virtual avatars and environments to its Teams chat system, which is expected to go live later this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Mr. Zuckerberg has said the Metaverse is &#8220;an embodied internet where you don&#8217;t just look at content, you are in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >He told The Verge that people shouldn&#8217;t live by &#8220;little, glowing rectangles&#8221; like their phones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >\u201cA lot of the meetings we have today, you see a grid of faces on a screen.  That\u2019s not how we process things either.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >However, the metaverse has also drawn criticism and security concerns due to its ability for humans to create avatars and hide behind them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Ken Kutaragi, inventor of Sony&#8217;s PlayStation games console, said: &#8220;Would you rather be a polished avatar than the real you?  This is essentially no different from anonymous forums.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Mr. Fadell said: &#8220;We had the same problem with text-based commenting and with blogs, we had it with videos, now we&#8217;re going to have it in Metaverse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Mr. Fadell spoke after Apple announced it was discontinuing the iPod Touch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >The portable music device that hit the market 21 years ago revolutionized the way people listen to and store songs.  Mr. Fadell also helped design Apple&#8217;s iPhone. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >Commenting on the iPod, Mr. Fadell said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in the technology business long enough to know the drumbeat of technology and the advance of technology never ends and it&#8217;s been an amazing time for the iPod but unfortunately that&#8217;s our business so I have I&#8217;m used to this situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creator of Apple&#8217;s iPod has warned of the so-called metaverse risks that could spawn more trolls and damage human interaction. The virtual reality-based metaverse removes the ability &#8220;to look at the other person&#8217;s face,&#8221; Tony Fadell said. &#8220;When you put technology in between that human connection, the toxicity happens,&#8221; he said. 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