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Hey there listeners. It’s Brett Melina. Welcome back to Talking Tech. You’ve likely heard us talk quite a bit about the metaverse. Are you ready to start working in the metaverse? That might happen a lot sooner than you think. Microsoft co-founder and billionaire, Bill Gates, predicts most workers will take their virtual meetings within the metaverse in the next two or three years. I write about this in a story that you can read on tech.usatoday.com.
If you think Zoom has not been fun for you, as far as doing stuff remotely, although it’s been a godsend to a lot of us, I’m sure there are some folks who prefer the physical interaction being with other people, and so Zoom might not be as fun for them as it is for others. Get ready for the metaverse, which is going to apparently take this to a whole other level.
Back to Bill Gates. He shared his thoughts in A Year in Review post that he published on his personal website. This is what he says, “I predict most virtual meetings will move from 2D camera image grids, which I call the Hollywood Squares model, although I know that probably dates me, to the metaverse, a 3D space with digital avatars.” Now he does note that one of the…
