Mark Zuckerberg

So I'm excited to take this in stages.

I don't think anyone out there is really doing what we're doing here.

I think that there are people who are doing kind of like fictional or consumer-oriented character type stuff, but the extent to which we're building it out with the avatars and expressiveness and

And making it so that they can interact across all of the different apps and they'll have profiles and we'll be able to engage people on Instagram and Facebook.

I think it's going to be really fun.

Well, I mean, this is a lot of the thesis behind the whole metaverse is giving people the ability to feel like you're present with someone.

I mean, this is like the main thing I talk about all the time.

But I do think that there's a lot to process about it.

I mean, from my perspective, I mean, I'm definitely here.

We're just not physically in the same place.

It's not like you're not talking to an AI, right?

You know, this is...

So I think the thing that's novel is the ability to convey through technology a sense of almost physical presence.

So the thing that is not physically real is us being in the same physical place, but kind of everything else is.

And I think that that gets to this...

somewhat philosophical question about what is the nature of kind of the modern real world.

And I just think that it really is this combination of a physical world and the presence that we feel, but also being able to combine that with this increasingly rich and powerful and capable digital world that we have and all of the innovation that's getting created there.

So

I think it's super exciting because, I mean, the digital world is just increasing in its capability and our ability to do awesome things.

But the physical world is so profound and that's a lot of what makes us human is that we're physical beings.