{"id":22362,"date":"2016-12-27T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T22:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22362"},"modified":"2016-12-27T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T22:12:57","slug":"the-dark-side-of-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22362","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side of VR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE DARK SIDE OF VR<\/a><\/h3>\n

Virtual Reality Allows the Most Detailed, Intimate Digital Surveillance Yet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cW<\/span>HY DO I\u00a0look like Justin Timberlake?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on stage wearing a virtual reality headset, feigning surprise at an expressive cartoon simulacrum that seemed to perfectly follow his every gesture.<\/p>\n

The audience laughed. Zuckerberg was in the middle of what he described as the first live demo inside VR, manipulating his digital avatar to show off the new social features of the Rift headset from Facebook subsidiary Oculus. The venue was an Oculus developer conference convened earlier this fall in San Jose. Moments later, Zuckerberg\u00a0and two Oculus employees were transported to his glass-enclosed office at Facebook, and then to his\u00a0infamously sequestered home<\/a>\u00a0in Palo Alto. Using the Rift and its newly revealed Touch hand controllers, their avatars gestured and emoted in real time, waving to Zuckerberg\u2019s Puli sheepdog, dynamically changing facial expressions to match their owner\u2019s voice, and taking photos with a virtual selfie stick \u2014 to post on Facebook, of course.<\/p>\n

The demo encapsulated Facebook\u2019s utopian vision for social VR, first hinted at two years ago when the company\u00a0acquired Oculus and its crowd-funded Rift headset for $2 billion<\/a>. And just as in 2014, Zuckerberg confidently declared\u00a0that VR would\u00a0be \u201cthe next major computing platform,\u201d changing the way we connect, work, and socialize.<\/p>\n

\u201cAvatars are going to form the foundation of your identity in VR,\u201d said Oculus platform product manager Lauren Vegter after the demo. \u201cThis is the very first time that technology has made this level of presence possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as the tech industry continues to build VR\u2019s social future, the very systems that enable immersive\u00a0experiences are already establishing new forms of shockingly intimate surveillance.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE DARK SIDE OF VR Virtual Reality Allows the Most Detailed, Intimate Digital Surveillance Yet \u201cWHY DO I\u00a0look like Justin Timberlake?\u201d Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on stage wearing a virtual reality headset, feigning surprise at an expressive cartoon simulacrum that seemed to perfectly follow his every gesture. The audience laughed. Zuckerberg was in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1493,14629,5567,14631,14630],"class_list":["post-22362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-facebook","tag-joshua-kopstein","tag-the-intercept","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22363,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22362\/revisions\/22363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}