Gene Simmons

I've met the man and obviously seen him in media.

That's not the same thing as being in the same room and the back and forth.

But I will tell you that AI and avatars and so on are, even by today's technological standards, are about as close to reality as you can ever imagine.

So I'll give you a sense of what I've experienced

So most people, young people especially, have had the goggles on where you're falling off a cliff and all of a sudden you actually feel like gravity's gone and so your senses aren't working anymore.

So that's a mindfuck, as they say.

Now imagine if you weren't wearing the glasses.

Your sense of...

the scale of things and what's happening.

When you're in a controlled environment.

And they're trying different variations of it.

Have you been to the big sphere in Vegas?

Well, it's worth going.

It's a very simplified, archaic version of it because you still have a sense of, I'm here, I can look around and look at the...

It goes back to the Fillmore West when they used to have bands and silhouettes and used to have light shows.

They go, oh, wow, look.

That's not the same thing as the virtual glasses.

So if you've been to the Sphere in Las Vegas, it's a wonderful, you know, all of a sudden you're on the moon and everything, but you don't lose yourself.

This is difficult to describe in the same way that when you're speaking to a Neanderthal, and that's actually the way you pronounce the word, it's not Neanderthal, even though it's spelled with a T. I learned something today.

Neanderthal, when you're speaking to a Neanderthal, if you can have a common language, and you're saying, okay, so I'm going to get in my jet, and I'm going to be...