While I'm not the biggest fan of Zuck, I don't share the negative takes on metaverse that have been popular recently. I'm a tech optimist and a daydreamer, and Hanke's take resonates. Tech can be used for good and bad but...I like to focus on the promise of a better tomorrow. htt…
Got a recruiting email from Facebook about “building the metaverse.” Sorry recruiter, but helping build Zuck's “ambitious vision for our future” is... not on my personal roadmap 😅
Niantic CEO talks about the #AR cloud for the future. A lot of corporate fluff, but also the interesting bit that they have AR glasses prototypes working and they plan working on them for years https://nianticlabs.com/... via @mathewolson #AR #AugmentedReality
Niantic CEO John Hanke said the tech industry and society at large should be focused on ensuring “the world doesn't devolve into the kind of place that drives sci-fi heroes to escape into a virtual one.” https://www.protocol.com/...
In a blog post published Tuesday, Hanke warned against hyping the long-sought-after metaverse concept, in which our digital avatars spend our time in ever-more-realistic virtual simulations, as a natural and positive evolution of the internet. https://www.protocol.com/...
I shared some thoughts on the Metaverse with our view that technology should be in service to us, as human beings, and not the other way around. The AR future that we imagine is designed to enhance our connection to the world around us and to one another. https://nianticlabs.com/…
“Hanke says it's a battle between technology that improves human experience and technology that simply exists for the sake of it.” https://www.protocol.com/...
“reality channels—this idea of games that transform the world around you in an almost passive way that just enhances it and makes it more interesting, makes it more fun and [puts] some adventure and excitement into it.” https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Super interesting interview with Hanke of Niantic, which has more experience with AR-in-practice than any other dozen companies put together. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... Also: The term “metaverse” has become unhelpful.
Learn more about how Scaniverse is part of our larger vision of building the Niantic Real World Metaverse and how it will benefit our Explorers! https://nianticlabs.com/... https://twitter.com/...
“Imagine a future of worlds that can be overlaid on the real world.” @NianticLabs CEO @johnhanke calls #AR layer, ‘Reality Channels’. “Think of Pokémon GO, upgraded for smart glasses where the Pokémon wander through your local park, seeming to actually inhabit the world” https://…
“The Metaverse is a Dystopian Nightmare. Let's Build a Better Reality...” “....a 10-story Pokémon GO Gym might rise above your local shopping center..” A good take on the concept of the #metaverse by @johnhanke https://nianticlabs.com/...
love how niantic is playing the long game, in public - fascinating company “we are just beginning this work, which we expect to continue over many years. It will evolve in fits and starts, just as past platform transitions have unfolded” https://twitter.com/...
“So the notion that you can just slap on a headset and shoot some photons into your eyes and somehow that takes the place of that whole-body experience that you have in the world—it's false.” — @johnhanke https://twitter.com/...
“This balance between virtual (all in meta-verse) and real life (real world metaverse) will be a huge technology and societal challenge and debate over the coming years” @thesullivan @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... tips @Techmeme
So @NianticLabs CEO John Hanke characterizes the metaverse as it's commonly understood as a “dystopian nightmare.” He says companies trying to build it (like Facebook) need to rethink why every sci-fi story about the metaverse paints such a bleak future. https://www.protocol.com/…
Fusing atoms with bits needs thoughtful human touch. Interesting read from @johnhanke on the Metaverse. Fascinating possibilities! Via @msquinn (Couldn't avoid putting the A+ @NewYorker depiction of fusing atoms & bits from a few years ago!) https://nianticlabs.com/... https://tw…
Finally someone said what needed to be said. And why do people still take @Facebook & it'a terrible leadership (with history of appropriating ideas) seriously enough to waste their mental space. Zuck used “meta verse” meme to distract from the actual damage FB does! https://twitt…