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"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Metaverse - The Future of the Metaverse

If we're going to be represented by realistic avatars in the metaverse, our bodies will have to be scanned. Our bodies contain a lot of data. Your movement data can be collected and stored. There's a wealth of studies in perceptual psychology which says how few movement points are needed in order to identify someone. We all actually have something akin to a fingerprint in the way we move. In their future, there's all these giant corporate conglomerations. Facebook, Wegmans, Apple, CVS have all combined.

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