All right, everybody. Hi, my name is Joseph Jerome. I'm currently a visiting professor of Communication at the University of Tampa. In a past life, however, I
worked on sensor data, augmented reality and metas reality labs outfit. So I'm not totally sure it's a great day to start one of these live epochs with an apology. But I'll at least start with an acknowledgement that at least for a moment, I was sort of on the front lines of this universe where the metaverse was everything that was going to happen. And obviously, I'm the Gartner hype cycle that occurs way, way down there. Facebook changed his name for a year everybody to fire chief metaverse, officers. And then everybody sort of realized nobody wondering at CD backs T shirts on like less avatars. So spatial data, it's sushi with PVS, Italy, hair wine with all of the stuff I just talked about augmented reality, the metrics. But why did space look up a little bit different? Let's start with a show of hands who here 30 Apple vision bro? All right, let the record reflect could be almost the entire room raised their hands. So we're talking about Apple entering the ecosystem. And if you go to Apple's website right now, they will tell you that the apple vision crow their their fancy new piece of technology is welcoming us to the era of spatial computing. So speeded up computing is here, I want to make an argument that especially computing, let's not think of this as a buzzword. In fact, it's been around for a long, long time. Virtual Reality researchers in 1993, were describing spatial computing, you move away from all the facts of customer leases, and Amazon. And then Microsoft and other big tech companies put out their developer facing materials very frequently mentioned spatial computing. And obviously, of course, Apple has joined into the fray. So this isn't just a buzzword, this is a thing. And it's going to I think dramatically change how we interact with and understand technology. So what is spatial computing? So at a big level, I think it's basically we have, we have all sorts of tech that's hacked that sensors, we have had huge leaps, computer vision, and it has died, white cop has mentioned artificial intelligence, you rat all three of those together. And you have a bunch of devices, every device silly, not just fancy headsets and AR glasses. And so really, any devices you can think of that's packed with this stuff that understands a world around it, that doesn't just understand and stand and analyze this room. But it also understands where other device star, it understands where it is in relation to other objects in space.
And this is, this is a big deal. Because I'll try and say a little bit more about this. But if so much like
super like how is this patient data any different from location data, we already have GPS on our phone, we're talking about technologies that understand how devices are moving in space out we are moving in space to a centimeter level accuracy. And this presents huge potential meta data points de and acid lie to max initiative, which is going to combine all of this information to create a contextually aware map and and think about what this needs all this theater combined into one big soup updated 24/7 365 at a centimeter level accuracy that everybody is confirmed on to it basically is just going to allow us to understand not just us these devices, these companies everyone to understand our world at a level we really just haven't appreciate before all of us understand the word GPS we're talking about BTS a visual positioning system it's one thing to sort of look at the grand ambitions of big tech companies but this has Egypt Liberty agents ships for navigation, you know think about trying to locate your Uber even today a bunch of us are all you know tried to all bring to the get to the airport at the end of state of the net tidy likely you know you're gonna walk out or street in New Hampshire to see data right license plate. With spatial computing, everybody's sitting out where it is all the time. One other word to describe this as basically a complete digital twin of the world around us. So what does all of this data with lay? Bennis is the not excited bar for any sort of technical you've word like geometric meshes than point robotics. These are the graphics that were helpfully put out by a magically with the launch of their first headsets to strike sush computer meta To its credit did a guy put the launch of the metaclass re lat fall city out these rapids and then now southern to the stripes, where you see schlager seeing the man shader. Basically all of this data exists on a spectrum from really, really abstract information to more polygonal phase that you know, more reflect our reality. This for example, is what the app visual probe or rap how Apple visual probe sees the world. And as kinematic I should see there are polygon, that Kobe weather to create recognizable objects want to be admired without legal table shares, here to see further one of the magic neat headset city because it's it'll exceed shaders, histories that he had in the background of this ranking as chair, but then I present office. And I imagine most of you are saying things like, who cares? I don't care about that. There's nothing problematic. This is all innocuous information, except taken at scale. All of this information about our environment allows me to infer all sorts of stuff about person's environment. The type of furnishings he has, indicates your wealth, the worry that he's teaching you that you're betting and in fact, it's not as if your religion is not for nothing. If we're standing in a bongs or certain types of plants, we might be able to determine that what your you know, recreational proclivities are. These are big, big sensitivity issues, not for nothing. This has been called by the wire, the technologies will enable a cold surveillance states. I think about this, I'm a privacy lawyer by trade. So I think about all the privacy of care. But I also think that there are huge trust and safety implications. There's big property, Asus, we're overlaying on top of the real world, a bunch of digital information that upsets how people traditionally understand space. So, you know, for example, what it is in a universe where we got to lose devices. And, you know, we're going to map at a centimeter level accuracy, some indigenous sacred space. And we're going to do this sacred spaces on the side of a really dangerous mouth, that, again, raises property and safety issues that I can't even begin to comprehend. And that's on top of the privacy interests at stake. Meta has put out a little white paper to hoppers up from permissions. They offer up by Saturday, the application suits or controls user education. I mean, I don't mean to put too much cold water on that they offer up some other more highfalutin, edgy feet are technical solutions that they have advanced a sheet till about but I don't think that this is really gonna work gear. You know, no one's buying a $500 at a class three or no one's by $3,500 Edit set, just to enable us going forward that are going to turn off all this functionality. And you know, maybe user education helps, not sure but just whiskey it might suddenly solve the issue either. So what do we do if you need polio anywhere else? And when I answer is went through is maybe some precedent you know, not for nothing, and you've had all sorts of people patch a critters have front yards, and all of us sued him and eventually after the law, got a involved in overstayed Wazzup that it eventually agreed to prevent the placement of some of the disana Vikatan within four years and settle Brandman home had time Bader place restrictions if you're a first amendment lawyer that should sound familiar or put into place throughout a call the parks and other invalid for bus preempt them rule a proper RTP handle mechanism. That sounds like again, a trust and see professionals really, we're going to need that we're gonna need this soon. Because even as the metaverse is safe and view, copies are investing heavily in this sort of mapping capability and knows better Microsoft, by the analyst over to a map so many years ago, I've been this is where I call myself. I'd really been worried about this for years. I continue to be very concerned about this. I've been partnering with Kobe see getting at b i b to hide a couple of solution, but I don't think we have very good solutions. So my impetus here is I hope you guys get involved. I don't think the policy community so I'm thinking about this, and I hope I've tricked like in way I've gotten engaged on the future of spatial computing. Thank you
