Elon Musk thinks the future of brain implants will be more attractive to virtual reality and less prone to health impacts than metavesre.
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"In the long run, a sophisticated Neuralink system can take you completely into virtual reality," Musk said in an interview with Babylon Bee last week. "I think we're a long way from disappearing into the metaverse, which sounds obvious."
Specifically, the tech billionaire thinks he doesn't see a future where people will leave the real world to live a virtual life. Sharing personal experience, he commented that VR glasses tend to stun and feel like motion sickness if used to play video games.
"I don't see someone wearing VR glasses on their face all day. If it did, it would damage your eyesight, wouldn't it?" Musk asked. "Now we have a true face-worn TV. Is that really good for you?"
Neuralink was founded in July 2016 by Elon Musk, aiming to develop a brain-computer neural interface. In 2019, he once announced that brain chip implantation would be done on humans by the end of 2020, but it has yet to materialize. However, the company has achieved certain achievements, such as implanting a chip in the brain of a monkey to control gaming in April.
Also in the interview, Musk rated the metaverse and Web3 - a web platform in which Internet services are rebuilt around blockchain and cryptocurrencies - as unattractive, even illusory. "I find the metaverse and Web3 sound more like marketing than actual applications," Musk said.
Via CoinTelegraph