Inside the Future: Nirav Desai on Neural Interfaces, AR/VR, and Agentic AI - Episode 03

Yeah, no, that makes a ton of sense.

Do you worry at all? Like, on one hand, I'm torn because I'm like, wow, some of these in the world of AR, right, having some of this functionality is great.

But at the same time, we built a society that is so consumed with their devices that aren't piping into their retina.

Like, I'm just trying to think, what happens to a conversation when you and I are chatting and there's this thing that you can't see that's like, you know, sending me information or ads and I'm distracted.

Like, do you worry at all about the humanity impact of some of these systems?

I, I do.

Um, and I think that's going to be like, this is, so I'm, I'm involved with an organization, the virtual world society.

It was started by Tom Furness, uh, considered the grandfather of AI, uh, VR, sorry.

Yeah.

Um, You know, he was early in his career.

He helped the Air Force begin their investment in virtual reality.

The central premise of Virtual World Society is that we are the business model by which we built big data and cloud is not very helpful to the consumer, the user experience.

And so as we're at the dawn of this spatial computing era, revolution.

Let's rethink some of that and figure out how to do it right.

Selling ad space in a virtual world should not be the business model for effective use.

I don't want to walk down the street full of people with virtual Times Square everywhere we go.

Do you want

to buy that guy's outfit? Click here.

I want something that's and we should think of business models to enable this that allow the right information at the time for what's relevant.

And I'm doing right now that actually helped the user out.

Yeah.

I love that.

And there's a lot of people thinking about this, right.

But if we don't think about this, we are going to go down that model.

And that's not a world.

Yeah, no, that makes a ton of sense.

Do you worry at all? Like, on one hand, I'm torn because I'm like, wow, some of these in the world of AR, right, having some of this functionality is great.

But at the same time, we built a society that is so consumed with their devices that aren't piping into their retina.

Like, I'm just trying to think, what happens to a conversation when you and I are chatting and there's this thing that you can't see that's like, you know, sending me information or ads and I'm distracted.

Like, do you worry at all about the humanity impact of some of these systems?

I, I do.

Um, and I think that's going to be like, this is, so I'm, I'm involved with an organization, the virtual world society.

It was started by Tom Furness, uh, considered the grandfather of AI, uh, VR, sorry.

Yeah.

Um, You know, he was early in his career.

He helped the Air Force begin their investment in virtual reality.

The central premise of Virtual World Society is that we are the business model by which we built big data and cloud is not very helpful to the consumer, the user experience.

And so as we're at the dawn of this spatial computing era, revolution.

Let's rethink some of that and figure out how to do it right.

Selling ad space in a virtual world should not be the business model for effective use.

I don't want to walk down the street full of people with virtual Times Square everywhere we go.

Do you want

to buy that guy's outfit? Click here.

I want something that's and we should think of business models to enable this that allow the right information at the time for what's relevant.

And I'm doing right now that actually helped the user out.

Yeah.

I love that.

And there's a lot of people thinking about this, right.

But if we don't think about this, we are going to go down that model.

And that's not a world.