Joe Rogan raises concerns on Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s new \u201cMetaverse\u201d VR world Joe Rogan YouTube \/ MetaJoe Rogan has raised concerns about Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s upcoming Metaverse VR world, claiming the online space could be \u201coverwhelmingly addictive\u201d for users once they test the waters. Zuckerberg and Meta, his social media company that used to be called Facebook, are planning to create an entire virtual realm \u2014 with the buzzword \u201cMetaverse\u201d leading all conversation. The plans conjures images from fiction, that of a society which has jumped into VR full-time. Digital hangouts, the new workplace \u2014 even concerts and entertainment would all take place within the Metaverse. It\u2019s this kind of reality that Rogan is wary of as Meta is going full-steam ahead with plans to invite billions of people to their online future. However, questions about the current issues the company is facing, as well as its potential to be \u201coverwhelmingly addictive\u201d, has Rogan concerned. Rogan claims Zuckerberg\u2019s Metaverse is a \u201ccrazy idea\u201d \u201cPeople are going to realize that this is a crazy idea,\u201d he said on his Joe Rogan Experience podcast on November 9. \u201cYou\u2019re going to give your life to some sort of augmented or virtual reality world that\u2019s created by a guy who\u2019s involved in this company whose algorithms are sowing the seeds of distrust and hate. \u201cBut now we\u2019re going to let him take over what you see and feel. Because you\u2019re going to have this new company that\u2019s virtual reality based.\u201d The popular podcast host said people would be so invested in the Metaverse, should it succeed, that it\u2019d become \u201coverwhelmingly addictive\u201d. \u201cWhen you\u2019re dealing with what\u2019s possible now, I don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to be able to stop people from doing it because it\u2019s going to be so overwhelmingly addictive,\u201d he said. \u201cLook at how many people are just addicted to looking at their Instagram. \u201cThe dopamine hit that you get from looking at a phone is minimal, but people are completely all-in on it.\u201d These concerns will only be amplified as technology improves, Rogan claims. \u201cIf you could go into the future [and compare with what\u2019s] available now with these insane video graphics, the Unreal engine, and move yourself in the future; yeah, it\u2019s going to be indistinguishable.\u201d Rogan also fears, should the Metaverse ever shut down, that people will lose everything. \u201cThe power grid is so vulnerable that if someone just detonated the power grid all this stuff stops and then you have no life,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ve invested your life in this augmented world, in this virtual world. \u201cBut this virtual world, all you have to do is pull the plug and it\u2019s out. And it\u2019s out for millions of people. \u201cIt\u2019s the equivalent of dropping a nuclear bomb on a culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan raises concerns on Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s new \u201cMetaverse\u201d VR world Joe Rogan YouTube \/ MetaJoe Rogan has raised concerns about Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s upcoming Metaverse VR world, claiming the online space could be \u201coverwhelmingly addictive\u201d for users once they test the waters. Zuckerberg and Meta, his social media company that used to be called Facebook, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}