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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Katie Kuric, and this is next question.

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Speaker 1: You know, it suddenly feels like everyone is talking about

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Speaker 1: the metaverse, doesn't it. This week we are looking at

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Speaker 1: the rising trend of the metaverse, the metaverse, metaverse, which

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Speaker 1: doesn't exist yet and no one really knows what it is.

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Speaker 1: People and companies are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: into the vision of the metaverse, But what the hell

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Speaker 1: is the metaverse and what could it mean for our

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Speaker 1: collective future? Technically, it's defined as a network of three

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Speaker 1: D virtual worlds focused on social connection. Thank you, Wikipedia.

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Speaker 1: But otherwise the only real consensus seems to be that

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Speaker 1: it's going to be huge. How huge? Well, Google, Apple, Snapchat,

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Speaker 1: and Microsoft have all made mega meta investments, and Facebook

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Speaker 1: founder Mark Zuckerberg even renamed his company Meta. I believe

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Speaker 1: the metaverse is the next chapter for the Internet, and

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Speaker 1: it's the next chapter for our company to Honestly, this

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Speaker 1: meta moment kind of reminds me of another seminal moment

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Speaker 1: in our tech evolution back in You know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people use it and communicate. I guess they can

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Speaker 1: communicate with NBC writers and producers. Allison, can you explain

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Speaker 1: what internet is. Yeah, that's right. I've always been on

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Speaker 1: the cutting edge of technological revolutions. So I meet a

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Speaker 1: date with Wall Street Journal tech columnist Joanna Stern. Is

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Speaker 1: really nice and funny, by the way, to meet me

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Speaker 1: in the metaverse, so I could see for myself what

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Speaker 1: this whole thing is all about. A small spoiler alert,

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Speaker 1: we and not just me seemed to be in the

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Speaker 1: dial up stage of the metamorphosis. So I'm very excited, Joanna,

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Speaker 1: to have you as a tour guide today for my

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Speaker 1: you'd like to go. I guess I know you wrote

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Speaker 1: now is is not really a thing. Right it's this

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Speaker 1: about is virtual reality and meta The company formerly known

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Speaker 1: other forms of our digital our devices are going to

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Speaker 1: help us get to this metaverse, which is a digital

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Speaker 1: virtual world where we have avatars that ourselves and we

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Speaker 1: do things in this metaverse that we do in the

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Speaker 1: one of the ways to get there is virtual reality

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Speaker 1: right now. And so right now what we kind of

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Speaker 1: made by Meta. It's called the Quest Too, and it

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Speaker 1: I will see you as an avatar Katie, so join

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Speaker 1: Same same me too. Well, Joanna, I know your battery

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Speaker 1: is about to run out. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: the tour. I'm gonna go play pickle ball on a

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Speaker 1: back at me. And I'm excited to get out of

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Speaker 1: this headset and get out of this virtual world. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see my real sons in real life

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Speaker 1: this headset off. Thank you, Joanna. This was really fun

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Speaker 1: and really interesting. Thank you. Okay, and I hope I

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Speaker 1: so too. I will wear a nicer outfit to my

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Speaker 1: real interview with you. Okay, take care, tell your kids

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Speaker 1: bye bye. Thank you so much, The Wall Street Journals,

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Speaker 1: Joanna Stern for taking me on my first and probably

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Speaker 1: last for a while tripped into the metaverse. Thanks for

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