{"id":130563,"date":"2021-11-13T22:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/ar-pioneer-warns-that-metaverse-could-make-reality-disappear"},"modified":"2021-11-13T22:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T06:22:21","slug":"ar-pioneer-warns-that-metaverse-could-make-reality-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/ar-pioneer-warns-that-metaverse-could-make-reality-disappear","title":{"rendered":"AR Pioneer Warns That Metaverse Could Make \u201cReality Disappear\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ar-pioneer-warns-that-metaverse-could-make-reality-disappear2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An innovator in early AR systems has a dire prediction: the metaverse could change the fabric of reality as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Rosenberg, a computer scientist and developer of the first functional AR system at the Air Force Research Laboratory, penned <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/the-future\/metaverse-augmented-reality-danger\/\" class=\"\"> an op-ed in <i>Big Think<\/i> this weekend<\/a> that warned the metaverse \u2014 an immersive VR and AR world currently being developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/facebook-changes-name-meta\" class=\"\"> The Company Formerly Known as Facebook<\/a> \u2014 could create what sounds like a real life cyberpunk dystopia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am concerned about the legitimate uses of AR by the powerful platform providers that will control the infrastructure,\u201d Rosenberg wrote in the essay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An innovator in early AR systems has a dire prediction: the metaverse could change the fabric of reality as we know it. Louis Rosenberg, a computer scientist and developer of the first functional AR system at the Air Force Research Laboratory, penned an op-ed in Big Think this weekend that warned the metaverse \u2014 an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1523,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-computing","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}