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How Metaverse Works? | Secrets of Metaverse | Explained in Hindi | Dhruv Rathee - YouTube
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Hello, friends!
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Imagine you meet with your family members or your friends,
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but not really,
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rather in a virtual 3D world.
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One that is created artificially.
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You enter this world while you're sitting in your room,
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using a special headset or glasses.
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Similarly, you're working or studying or shopping,
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you do almost all the things that you do in the real world,
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but not in the real world,
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instead in this virtual, artificially created world,
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using this special headset or glasses right from your room.
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How does it sound?
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Doesn't it sound a little depressing?
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Friends, the Metaverse promises something akin to this for the future.
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It is touted to be a technology
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that would replace the internet in the future,
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and will become the future of humanity.
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"Will Metaverse change the world of the internet?"
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"I think we'll have to brace for this race for the Metaverse.
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I think we'll see more and more of an AI coming in the gaming space."
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"The next platform and medium will be even more immersive
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an embodied internet,
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where you're in the experience,
not just looking at it.
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And we call this the Metaverse.
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Because the future is going to be beyond anything we can imagine."
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The word Metaverse is made up of two words.
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Meta + Verse.
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The word Meta is derived from Greek,
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it is a prefix that basically means 'Beyond.'
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And the Verse comes from the word 'Universe.'
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We live in this Universe
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and it will be the Metaverse
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that will be beyond this universe.
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This word is basically used to refer to an artificial world.
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You might recall another word related to this,
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the Multiverse.
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The one talked about in the latest Spiderman film.
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Multiverse is the concept where
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there are multiple existing universes,
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It is something that is even scientifically discussed.
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Some people believe that
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there isn't only one universe,
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rather there are multiple universes,
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thus the Multiverse.
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But anyway, Metaverse means
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an artificially created universe.
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The Internet can also be said to be a distinct universe
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but when you go on the Internet,
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it is mostly limited to 2 Dimensions only.
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Whether you're using your phone or your computer,
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these are 2-dimensional screens.
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But when Metaverse is talked about,
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Metaverse would be a world where
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you can be completely in it.
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In 3 Dimensions.
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Like when you watch a film,
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you wouldn't be watching the film merely as a viewer,
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you would experience being in the film.
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For example, you're watching the Dandi March happening,
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you wouldn't just see the photo of it,
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or the video of the Dandi March,
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rather it would be as if you're sitting in a boat nearby
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and actually watching the Dandi March as it is happening.
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Or when you watch a cricket match on the television,
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it is in 2 dimensions,
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but technically, if we use virtual reality,
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then you would get a 360° experience of watching the cricket match around you.
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It will try to create an experience that would make you feel as if you're actually at the match.
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The word Metaverse was first used in the year 1992.
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In the science fiction book Snow Crash.
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Written by Neal Stephenson.
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In this novel, he talked about a dystopian world,
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a world where real-life has been destroyed
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the outdoors wasn't livable for humans anymore,
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so everyone lives confined to their buildings and rooms,
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and spends their life in virtual reality.
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That virtual reality, the artificial world, was referred to as Metaverse by him.
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After this, a game was released in 2003 called the Second Life.
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You could play this game on the computer,
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and create a second life in this game on the computer.
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Meeting people virtually, buying items,
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buying properties in the game,
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exchanging goods and services,
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and creating realistic looking avatars.
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By the way, an interesting fact here,
the word Avatar,
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was first popularised in the 1992 book Snow Crash.
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This word comes from the Hindi/Sanskrit word Avtar,
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when we call someone a reincarnation of a deity.
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Similarly, the word Avatar was used here
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for the characters in the virtual reality that you could create.
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They'd be your Avatars.
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Like this 3-D animation of Mark Zuckerberg created by him,
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this 3D character is the Avatar of Mark Zuckerberg.
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Obviously, this word became more popular in the rest of the world
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with the release of the 2009 film Avatar.
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Recently though,
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many companies tried to create their virtual worlds and Metaverses,
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but this word was made popular again
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by Facebook.
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When Facebook decided to change the name of their company to Meta.
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Saying that they want to adopt the Metaverse.
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That they want to expand from being a social media company to a Metaverse company.
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And Mark Zuckerberg defined the Metaverse in this manner.
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"And you're gonna be able to do almost anything you can imagine.
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Get together with friends and family,
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work, learn, play, shop, create,
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as well as entirely new categories that
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don't really fit how we think about computers and phones today.
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If it were up to Mark, he would've said
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that you could eat and have bodily functions in the Metaverse itself.
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Because the more you spend time in the Metaverse,
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the more data they would be able to collect on you.
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More they earn.
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But let's talk about this later in the video.
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The cons and dangers of it.
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First, let's see how the Metaverse is created.
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Various technologies are used here,
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to actually create the Metaverse.
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The first is Virtual Reality.
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This technology already exists today.
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But to use this, you have to wear these heavy headsets.
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And if you have them on for more than half an hour, they start causing headaches,
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and motion sickness.
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As claimed by many users.
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On top of it, the things that you can see in virtual reality now,
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the level of technology that we have today,
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is quite poor.
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The quality of animation that you see in the virtual reality games,
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the videos that you can see on there,
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Although it is something that would definitely improve with time.
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It is also being hoped that
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these heavy headsets
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with the new technologies, they would keep getting smaller and slimmer,
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and eventually, they'd be the size of normal glasses.
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Where it wearing it and taking it off would be as easy as
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wearing and taking off a pair of glasses.
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Whether this would be actually possible,
time will tell.
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The second technology is AR.
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Augmented Reality.
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It would mean that some artificial elements mixed with our real world.
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It wouldn't be a complete Virtual Reality.
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An excellent example of it is the Pokémon Go smartphone game.
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On it, you can use the smartphone to look at the real world around you,
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but when you look at it through the smartphone,
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you can see the artificial Pokémons in there.
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It seems like they are mixed in the real world around you.
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Another good example of it is,
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the Google Glass that was released once upon a time.
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Remember?
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A product that was released and taken back without people finding out about it.
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But Google Glass had a huge hype around 2013-14,
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glasses with which you could add virtual elements in the real world.
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When you look at the road in front of you,
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you can have a map at the corner of the glasses,
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You could take to someone through the camera,
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while looking in front of you, even while walking,
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this feature was heavily criticised.
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In fact, this was mocked so much that
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eventually, the Google Glass was a huge flop.
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Apart from this, having 5G technology in the Metaverse is also talked about.
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If we're to create a huge virtual world,
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we'd need to constantly upload and download a huge amount of data,
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for this, we'd need extremely high internet speeds,
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we'd need 5G.
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Additionally, Blockchains and cryptocurrencies are also mentioned,
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when talking about the Metaverse.
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When money would be spent to buy anything in the Metaverse,
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they can't be real money, of course,
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because everything is digital,
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so there would be a need for digital currency.
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This is where Cryptocurrencies come into play.
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And because there's a large number of transactions constantly,
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they'd need to be kept secure.
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There would be a threat of hackers,
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or the threat of data breaches too,
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To keep these secure, Blockchains might be used.
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The exact manner in which Blockchains keep the data secure,
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I discussed it in the video on Blockchain.
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If you want to know about it in detail, watch this video,
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the link to it is in the description below.
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Apart from it, if you want to buy land in the Metaverse,
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or some other property,
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or any asset in the Metaverse, how should that be accomplished?
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It is said that it'll be accomplished through NFTs.
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Non Fungible Tokens.
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You can think of NFTs as tokens,
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that exists on the blockchain,
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and can prove the ownership of any digital asset.
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How would you prove that you own a particular digital land in the Metaverse?
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An NFT will prove it.
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Nowadays, it is being used to buy or sell the ownership of memes.
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NFTs can be used to verify the tickets to a concert also.
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If someone holds a virtual concert in the Metaverse.
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It is something that some singers have already done it.
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Virtual reality concerts.
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In it, they get up on a digital stage and perform,
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and you see them as animated figures
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and see them perform.
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It can be used there as well.
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Last year in September,
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singer Arianna did this
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by virtually performing in Fortnite.
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Coming back to the topic.
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Although all these technologies exist individually on a basic level,
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but by combining them,
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and creating a true Metaverse will take a lot of time.
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Mark Zuckerberg estimates that
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it would take about 5 to 10 years,
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for the key features of Metaverse to become a part of the mainstream.
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Several experts believe that
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it would actually take decades,
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before something akin to the Metaverse could become so popular,
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that majority of people would be using it.
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Many people believe that
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Metaverse is inevitable.
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It is bound to happen someday.
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The next thing after the internet would be the Metaverse.
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But a critical question arises here.
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Will this Metaverse be successful?
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Is there a demand for it?
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Does anyone want it?
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And it is a very interesting question.
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Because if you look at the technologies like Google Glass,
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there were a lot of efforts put into making it popular around 2014,
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Many celebrities went around wearing it,
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it was handed out to influencers,
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people made tech reviews of it,
showing how cool they were.
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But eventually, the Google Glass was a flop.
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There are many reasons for the lack of response.
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One of the reasons was that they had a battery life of 3 hours only.
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They looked weird.
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There was the issue of privacy
because they had a camera.
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Many places had already banned them because
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with people wearing them, no one knew who was being recorded when.
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Many countries went about banning them.
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People couldn't wear them to certain restaurants and bars.
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But in my opinion, there was an even more important reason
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behind the failure of Google Glass.
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They didn't have any feature that the people truly needed.
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It did look very cool,
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a futuristic piece of technology.
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And the people who owned one of these,
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they could show-off the features of the Glass,
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but actual, real-life use
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was next to none.
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Anything you could do on Google Glass,
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you could already do it on your smartphone.
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And you could do it better on the smartphone.
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Whether it is looking at maps or talking on video calls,
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You could do it on the Glass at the corner of the lens,
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but why wouldn't you just take your phone out of your pocket and use it?
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There was basically no use case for the Google Glass.
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Something similar can be said about the Metaverse too.
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It is very cool to try it for the first time,
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seeing how you can sit in a 3D virtual environment and communicate with others,
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having 3D meetings,
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but realistically,
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why would you go through so much trouble?
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Everyone needs to put on the glasses,
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and call everyone else on the 3D setup,
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it's easier to simply take out the phone and get on a normal video call.
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It is much easier to do so.
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Who would go through with preparing for all of it?
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Same thing for meeting up with friends,
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You can meet them actually in real life,
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but even if you want to meet virtually,
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have a video call with them.
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Or talk to them via messaging.
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Is there something extra this special 3D world offer?
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The technology that is the most popular among people,
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Is the easiest to use.
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And provides a clear benefit to the user.
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If that's not the case,
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then it would be very difficult for a technology to become mainstream.
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Another example of it was the 3D glasses.
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There was a time when 3D became the latest trend.
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Every other film that was released was in 3D,
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there are many 3D pictures released now as well,
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but I'm talking about the time when 3D TVs were very popular too.
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People wanted to have a 3D TV in their homes.
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It sounds very cool.
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To have a 3D TV!
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But realistically, it was bothersome
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to put on glasses for watching TV.
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No one wants to put in so much effort.
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Things should be kept simple.
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Only the things that are simple would be successful.
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If you have the simple option of
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simply turning on the TV to watch it,
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you wouldn't care about 3D.
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And the additional eye strain and headache while wearing the 3D glasses
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is unacceptable for many people.
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This is the reason why the popularity of 3D cinema is sinking.
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People have started preferring watching 2D movies again.
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Because there aren't many additional benefits of watching 3D movies.
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And the feeling of being stuck with the glasses,
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and the strain on the eyes isn't worth it
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for the additional advantage
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of watching the movie in 3D.
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The second point of criticism is perhaps more significant.
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Do we really want to distance ourselves from the real-life so much that
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we forget how to live real lives?
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That we spend all our lives in this fake artificial world.
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If this virtual world becomes so addictive and immersive,
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somewhere or the other, people will stop worrying about the real world.
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It is truly dystopian.
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It will be very depressing.
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And the book that I talked about, Snow Crash,
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is actually a Dystopian Novel,
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it wasn't something to draw inspiration from.
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To create something of that sort.
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It tried to show the Metaverse in a negative light.
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The third problem is specific to Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.
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The threat to privacy and data theft,
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You are tracked on Facebook by all possible means.
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The exact pixel you click,
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the content that you like,
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the accounts you follow,
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based on it, you are shown similar content.
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This creates bubbles.
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You remain in your bubble.
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You are shown only the things that you like.
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Because of this, what eventually happens is that,
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as I told you in the video on Facebook,
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we witness riots in the real world.
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Polarisation of people takes place.
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Left-wing and Right-wing
this religion versus that religion,
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this political party and that political party,
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people start fighting.
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And there are literal riots in the world.
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The blame for the genocide in Myanmar
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was put largely on Facebook.
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And because Mark Zuckerberg talks about creating the Metaverse,
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this same thing will increase 10 or 100 times.
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Because they want you to work in the Metaverse,
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talk to your friends,
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each and every movement would be tracked.
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Each word that you utter,
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they will track it to sell ads.
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You will be shown things that you like.
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You can imagine the same thing on a much bigger scale.
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Think how dangerous it would be.
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On top of it, when such a virtual world is being created,
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a new type of universe is being created here,
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and it's created by one company.
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Think how the owner of that universe would be Mark Zuckerberg.
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In the real world, there is no such owner at least.
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Mark Zuckerberg would become the literal God of the Metaverse.
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If he gets control over everything.
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If the Metaverse truly becomes successful,
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suppose 60% of the world's population starts using it,
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and they start doing everything in the Metaverse,
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think about the level of power with that one person,
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that one company,
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that would own the majority shares in the Metaverse.
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It is very unethical and highly dangerous.
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What is your opinion on the Metaverse?
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What do you think?
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Will it become popular in the future?
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Comment below to let me know.
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If you ask for my opinion,
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I think some technologies from it that would definitely be popular in the future.
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But they will be popular in their sectors.
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For example, the technology of AR.
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Augmented Reality.
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I think it has a very productive use case
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in engineering, architecture or even in the field of medicine.
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Where you need to think in 3D.
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Using 3D models would make the work more efficient and overall better.
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Especially if you could interact with 3D models.
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I believe it has great potential in many business areas and industries,
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these types of technologies.
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I hope you found this video to be informative.
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Let's meet in the next video.
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Thank you very much.
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