{"id":151903,"date":"2022-12-05T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/facebook-exec-says-metaverse-will-let-you-betray-your-friends-in-vr"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:22:21","slug":"facebook-exec-says-metaverse-will-let-you-betray-your-friends-in-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/facebook-exec-says-metaverse-will-let-you-betray-your-friends-in-vr","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Exec Says Metaverse Will Let you Betray Your Friends in VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-exec-says-metaverse-will-let-you-betray-your-friends-in-vr2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>POV: There\u2019s a slight chill in the air, the leaves are changing, and you might just be wearing corduroy. You know what that means? Facebook-turned-Meta\u2019s Connect conference is here. And boy, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hvfV-iGwYX8&ab_channel=Meta\" class=\"\">Connect 2022\u2019s prerecorded keynote presentation video<\/a> a doozy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvfV-iGwYX8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The hour-and-a-half long clip was jam-packed with\u2026 well, a lot. There was a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/meta-quest-pro-headset-dead-on-arrival\" class=\"\">product reveal<\/a>. There were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/15\/tech\/vr-no-legs-explainer\/index.html\" class=\"\">finally legs<\/a>, but only for executive avatars. There was \u2014 and we cannot stress this enough \u2014 more nodding blankly at a camera than we\u2019ve probably ever seen in a single video. One particularly striking revelation, though? The promise that soon, the metaverse might be a space where we can all betray those closest to us. Finally!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalling all crewmates,\u201d said Meta\u2019s Developer Relations chief Melissa Brown, as she announced that the VR version of the beloved online game \u201cAmong Us\u201d is officially open for pre-order through the Meta Quest Store. \u201cSoon, you\u2019ll be betraying friends from a first-person perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POV: There\u2019s a slight chill in the air, the leaves are changing, and you might just be wearing corduroy. You know what that means? Facebook-turned-Meta\u2019s Connect conference is here. And boy, was Connect 2022\u2019s prerecorded keynote presentation video a doozy. The hour-and-a-half long clip was jam-packed with\u2026 well, a lot. There was a product reveal. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151903","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=151903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}