Zuckerberg's $36 Billion Dollar Bet

The importance of VR and the Metaverse; out now in Tablet

ByteDance surely knows what Meta does: that by strapping on a VR headset and exploring astonishing virtual worlds, you are transforming the entirety of your life—the inside of your home, the surface of your body, the tendencies of your mind—into data. The Meta Quest Pro has three cameras to track your eyes, and two to track facial expressions; necessary for creating realistic avatars, but also handy for establishing exactly what mood you’re in, how long you look at certain items, and what products most interest you. Your face, your eyes, your unconscious movements—all rendered as data and sold to the highest bidder.

My piece on Meta’s vision for our virtual reality future, out now in Tablet Magazine.

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Some of my photography that didn’t end up getting used in the piece:

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