The policy risk inside Mark Zuckerberg’s glasses

Politico October 3, 2024
By Derek Robertson

Meta has always insisted that building the “metaverse” is a long-term play, but a flashy recent demo from Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated just how immediate a policy concern it might become if people really start to inhabit virtual reality at scale.

At Meta’s annual Connect conference last week, Zuckerberg strode onstage — wearing a t-shirt bearing the phrase aut Zuck aut nihil (“All Zuck or all nothing”) — to demonstrate the company’s prototype Orion augmented reality glasses.

The glasses resemble a strange combination of Buddy Holly, Iris Apfel and semi-opaque drive-in 3D glasses, and functioned, as Zuckerberg demonstrated in a video, exactly how he and the metaverse’s biggest boosters have promised it: cleanly laying virtual elements onto physical reality, controllable with...

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