🤖 #84 - The Morality In The Metaverse, The Future of Humanity, & The Web 3 Conundrum | Lucky Gobindram

Lucky Gobindram is an AR/VR expert and executive. Currently, he is a General Manager of several divisions at CEMTREX (Stock Ticker: CETX). Cemtrex is a diversified technology company that's driving innovation in a wide range of sectors, including smart technology, virtual and augmented realities, advanced electronic systems, industrial solutions, and intelligent security systems. Previously, he was the Co-Founder of OMB Manufacturing, (before they merged with Cemtrex).

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Intro; Brooklyn; Blackjack vs. Poker; The different VR Goggles on the market; Lucky’s been taking business meetings in the Metaverse; Masterpiece Studio and building 3D Items in the Metaverse; AR vs. VR

22:22 - Video games are getting insanely real; Kids and video game reality; Oculus’ recent sales growth/adoption jump; Oculus vs other headsets; VR Live concerts aren’t good yet; AR & Doctors; Automating away some doctors?

45:35 - Web 2.0 birthed Web3; A Centralized Metaverse?; For-Profit Searches?; Treating Information like a jury; Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs); NFTs & rarity

1:01:58 - NFTs role in the Metaverse?; Boomer interest in AR / VR?; Meta (Facebook) not getting into the digital land game?

1:17:55 - Shoutout to MySpace Tom; Zuckerberg is not trustworthy; Revisiting the Shaan Puri Metaverse Twitter Thread; Blurring the lines of AR / VR in next era; Lucky doesn’t like the term “Metaverse”; When do we lose phones?; Why Lucky dislikes social media 

1:37:10 - Social media’s role in elections; The Web3 Decentralization vs. Convenience conundrum; Ethics & Morality in Web3?; Human Weaknesses; The prisoner’s dilemma of ethics in a capitalist system

1:53:42 - Lucky’s family background; Simplicity and adoption; Are VR glasses “simple” enough?; The gamers’ advantage in the Metaverse; Why Lucky thinks the Metaverse will *IMPROVE* interpersonal communication; Lucky and Julian debate the relevance of many Metaverses vs. a few “monopoly-like” Metaverses

2:10:51 - Country Embassies in the Metaverse?; Barbados’ Metaverse bet; Borders in the Metaverse?; How far away are we from Haptics being legit?; The youngest generation doesn’t understand the physical and digital world overlap like Millennials and older Gen Z ’s do; China’s TikTok advantage re: their youth; What is America’s future in the world?; Who gets control long term –– governments or tech platforms? 

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