Meta executive says that metaverse will not be monopolized and talks about “internet renaissance”

According to executive, the impacts of the metaverse could transform all known human relationships. The big problem behind this is that, with the help of avatars, people will choose who they want to be. They will have the option of being thin or fat, old or young, following social standards or not. 

The Meta executive even made a joke to indicate what could happen with communication through the metaverse.

“For the past year, I've been holding my weekly Monday meetings with my team around the world in the metaverse in a product called 'Workrooms.' Everyone looks suspiciously about 20 years younger and several pounds lighter, those are the avatars people tend to go for,” said Nick Clegg.

“You feel like you are breathing the same air”

In addition to being able to choose who you are in the metaverse, he points to the technical evolution of technology as something that can interfere with people's daily lives, despite it seeming distant at the moment.

Clegg says that “when you put on headphones and talk to people, you feel like you're breathing the same air in the same room because audio technologies have advanced so much, it's as if someone is sitting to your right and left.”

A common concern regarding the conception of the metaverse is the fear of placing all the power of this new moment in the internet in the hands of a few (large) companies.

With the debate on the democratization of technology on the agenda, Clegg says that these environments will be built by a “constellation” of companies, with different operating systems. From there he concludes: the metaverse would be “like the rebirth of the Internet.”

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