"It's an embodied internet," Mark Zuckerberg said. And like you experience people not as these little boxes in Zoom, like we are right now as we tape this podcast, but they are around you. It's still a place where apps run and exist, and developers will be building for the metaverse, but it's supposed to create this kind of persistent experience of connectivity, where you go from one virtual space to the next, and you can bring your digital assets with you from space to space. And the metaverse is kind of the next version of this, where it extends beyond, or sort of transcends, the current internet. The way in which we experienced the web 20 years ago was very different from the way we have experienced it over the past decade or so with mobile phones in our hands, and the way in which we share information with apps and pull or receive information from apps. My answer was, it depends on who you ask, but the most consistent description I've heard from different technologists is that it is the successor to the mobile internet. LG: I'm happy to take a stab at this, because I just went on the BBC earlier this week at an ungodly hour in the morning, Pacific Coast time, to talk about this. MC: Can we just take a moment? And I know we've done this on the show before, but can we define what the metaverse is? Because we all sort of had an idea of what it was, going into Facebook Connect today, and I think it's probably changed. On the other hand, it has this new thing called Facebook Reality Labs, which is the new home for all of its products that deal with the metaverse and whatever else the future of computing looks like.
LG: Back up just a little bit, because earlier this week, Facebook reported its third-quarter earnings, and it talked about how it was going to break apart some of the top line for another one of its divisions, right? So there are all these different products and divisions of Facebook, tell us how that works and how it's going to be broken out now.ĪP: The Facebook that you know right now, which Facebook sometimes calls the family of apps-Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, stuff like that-is now going to be broken into this division that it calls the Family of Apps. This is supposed to signal that the company is not just a social media company anymore. Arielle, what are we supposed to be calling Facebook? Tell us about this.ĪP: The company formerly known as Facebook is now called Meta, as in metaverse, as in a metastasizing cancer, as AOC tweeted today. I don't even know if we should be calling it Facebook right now. And we heard about Facebook's name change. We heard a little bit more about Mark Zuckerberg's vision for what the metaverse will look like. We saw a bunch of new stuff that is supposed to enable developers to build things for this idea of the metaverse.
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They had their annual software developers conference, held virtually on Thursday. In case you haven't been refreshing your newsfeed this week, there's a lot of news out of Facebook.
LG: Well, we're talking about Facebook again. You could be in Nazare.ĪP: Let's just say I'm inside of the mind of Mark Zuckerberg. LG: We're also joined in the metaverse by WIRED senior writer Arielle Pardes, who joins us from … where are you, Arielle?Īrielle Pardes: Does it really matter in 2021 where we are, if we're all in the metaverse? Arjun plays Cupid and returns to America with Kusum and Rajiv. To finalize the marriage he sends his son along with his foster son Arjun to India. Mahima Chaudhary makes her debut as Ganga.
He finds his daughter in law in Kusum Ganga (a pet Subhash Ghai name just as Chandni was Yash Chopra's favorite for a long time) in the house of his childhood friend Suraj Dev. Kishorilal hopes his soon-to-be daughter in law will instill some Indian values in his extremely westernized son. So the pardesi comes to India with his "American" son Rajiv to find a suitable '"Indian" girl for him. Kishorilal is a successful businessman settled in America but still emotionally attached to his motherland - India. Synopsis This film takes a serious look at the lives of Westernized Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) in North America (Whereas Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was about NRIs with Indian hearts, Pardes is about Westernized NRIs.) and hence the meaning of the title - "foreign land".