![]() On Thursday, Zuckerberg said one of the lessons he's "internalized" in the past five years is that privacy and safety need to be built into the Metaverse from day one. "We are very much discussing upfront the harms that are made possible by technology or amplified or exposed by technology and what we can do about those things." "That is not where we are today," he said. "We don't take our commitment to those people lightly."īosworth said that a decade ago, the technology industry was not thinking critically about the challenges its products would create. "They demonstrate that by using the products that we build everyday," said Bosworth, who is currently the vice president of Reality Labs for Meta. In several leaked internal documents reviewed by CBS News, Facebook researchers expressed concerns that the company often took action on protecting users after the damage had been done.īut Facebook's incoming chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, told CBS News in an exclusive interview that "billions of people trust" Facebook. In testimony before a congressional committee and on "60 Minutes," she accused the company of putting profits over people. Earlier this month, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen publicly came forward after leaking thousands of documents that showed company executives knew the platform helped spread misinformation for years but did not do enough to combat the negative effects. Zuckerberg said these tools will allow for "a lot more commerce and help grow the overall Metaverse economy."īut the growth of the Metaverse will also mean more scrutiny for a company that is currently under fire for failing to properly protect users. Tools that allow creators to connect various physical locations into augmented reality experiences for virtual tours and scavenger hunts are also on the way. While some of the building blocks of the Metaverse are already here, much of the technology is still years away from being widely available.įacebook says it does not want to own the Metaverse and is making tools available that will allow developers to connect its platform with other developers. ![]() "You're going to have virtual clothes for different occasions designed by different creators from different apps and experiences," Zuckerberg said. ![]() Users may be able to customize their avatars for work and play. ![]() The avatars, Zuckerberg said, will be as common as profile pictures on social media sites, but "instead of a static image there will be living, 3-D representations of you." ![]()
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