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Late last June while addressing a meeting of Facebook employees, Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook would grow from a company involved in social media to building \u201ca maximalist, interconnected set of experiences straight out of sci-fi \u2014 the metaverse\u201d. He argued that \u201cyou can think about the metaverse as an embodied internet, where instead of just viewing content \u2014 you are in it. And you feel present with other people as if you were in other places, having different experiences that you couldn\u2019t necessarily do on a 2D app or webpage, like dancing, for example, or different types of fitness\u201d.

Second Life attempted to build and popularise this idea fifteen years ago with a very limited success. Two questions therefore arise. What makes Mark Zuckerberg think he can succeed where Philip Rosendale failed? What consequences will we face - socially and individually - if he actually succeeds?

In this episode of Genuine Inquiry Owen Kelly explores these questions and the deeper problems of \u201cvirtual reality\u201d.