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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, discusses his vision for virtual reality during an immersive VR podcast interview with Lex Fridman.
“The thing that you can do in the metaverse that is different from what you can do on a phone is like doing stuff where you're physically there together and Participating in things together, and we could play games like this.”
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