Zuckerberg (Facebook) has just bought a new company called Oculus VR. According to Zuck it has the potential to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate. (Again!)
We are in the midst of rapid change. Everything we thought we knew will not be. Alvin Toffler the futurist author said many would not be able to keep up with the rapidly changing future. He said they would get the disease of FUTURE SHOCK! But maybe he was wrong...Maybe we will just adapt and buy into all the new goodies.
For Zuckerberg and all the Big Five (Facebook,Google,Microsoft,Amazon, & Yahoo) it's all about the future. If mobile is the current computing platform, vision and virtual reality could be platforms of the future. Zuckerberg said that buying Oculus was "a long term bet on the future of computing."
The creator of the Oculus said that "the more we learned, the more we became convinced that virtual reality would become central to the next great wave of computing." (Dixon)
It is being described as a "fully immersed experience." The experience could make all the common experience today go from gaming to chatting face-to-face across the globe.
"Oculus has the potential to be the most social platform ever. Imagine not just sharing moments with your friends online but entire experiences." (Zuckerberg)
Just remember it will be virtual. We are going from the social collective body to a more atomonous and imaginary alone world. Will this be good for us? Will it be good for society? Or will it be another distraction that actually separates us more and more from each other as we enter the unreal and impossible.
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