Will technology make us into “zombies in the Matrix?” Fear exploded on social networks with the publication, Sunday 21 February, a photo showing the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, trying to advance smiling at a crowd of people blinded by wearing a virtual reality headset (called VR).
Intense, the cliché predict a future where people live permanently in a virtual world. It evokes the film “Matrix” where machines enslave humanity, or the “1984″ Apple where men sat lose reflection against a figure of totalitarian power (referring to George Orwell).
Shared on the Facebook account of Mark Zuckerberg, the picture has collected more than 12,000 comments, most criticizing the posture of the young boss. “This image is scary, with [Zuckerberg] walking in the midst of dozens of human-robot,” launches first.
I can not live in such a world. I want to touch a flower that blooms. I want to shake someone in my arms. I want to watch the sunset. I want to feel the breeze on my face. I want to feel connected, humanely, “said another.
Losing any engagement with the real world
Presented as an innovation, virtual reality is scary. And due : once donned the headset, the user becomes totally blind from the outside world Worse, most of the “experiences” of immersion in this alternate reality make use of headphones while cutting of any link with the real world. <. /> p>
in seconds, it becomes possible to slide down a ski slope, evolve in a space battle, ending up in the middle of a concert of K-pop. But also lose any decision with environment, unable to achieve if the house is burning.
More than the cliché of Mark Zuckerberg, the feeling appears when HTC demonstrations for his helmet Vive. the player finds himself alone in a small white room, and moved against a wall.
space combat simulation with the helmet of HTC Vive (Boris Manenti – the Obs)
yet the fear of a real offline future does not seem to affect the global mobile lounge in Barcelona (MWC). All stands will be their “experience” of virtual reality, Samsung Ford, via American or Korean telecom operators. Propelling VR helmets to the rank of main trend of this edition, 2016.
Demystifying photo Zuckerberg
In the aisles, nobody suggests a potential enslavement to technology, or returns on this picture of Mark Zuckerberg. Most individuals in the photo (including myself) relativize the runaway viral
The context of this photograph was hidden. Recall helps demystify. The scene takes place during the major conference organized by Samsung to unveil its new Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. If the South Korean manufacturer has little to unveil innovations, however, it means “do the show.” Also, the audience is invited to follow part of the conference with a virtual reality helmet screwed on the head.
Mark Zuckerberg during the conference Samsung (RICO DAVID / SIPA)
the 3,000 spectators donned the Gear VR, developed in collaboration with Oculus (start-up owned by Facebook), to discover the first images of the Galaxy S7. Then a second time to find the kind of videos that can save the new camera filming Gear 360 to 360 degrees.
It was at that point that Mark Zuckerberg walks towards the stage. The presence of the boss is the only real surprise of this conference. It is then expressed in the VRP premium virtual reality headset.
No, there will not be crowds in full VR
If the benefit of Samsung was the first major crossings with virtual reality, it is necessary to extrapolate widely see the future of this technology. While most of VR helmets are about to be marketed, but it will take many years to see this technology become democratic. Mainly because the uses are limited for the time being, to video games. And yet, all is far from the quality that can be achieved on recent ultra high definition screens
Another point to emphasize. Virtual reality headsets have limited use, they do not engage in society. “Social virtual reality” promised by Mark Zuckerberg does not exist. A prototype of it has not even really been thought. Except at technology conferences or in an amusement park, it will turn to the future extremely rare to observe crowds wearing VR helmets on their heads and disconnected from reality.
” Le Monde “rightly recalls that all technologies have at one time been accused of absorbing humanity: from TV to radio, through novels or even the press. Shown in this photo of a train car in the 1950s:
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Boris Manenti
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