The Winklevoss Brothers VS Mark Zuckerberg
After funding his brainchild for 7 years of a cryptocurrency empire Gemini, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are in the process of signing the latest documents, a $ 400 million investment. Let me remind you that after 7 years the annual revenue Gemini increased by 600% over last year. The rivalry between the twins and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the metaverse is starting to get its first shifts.
The brothers are expected to retain approximately 75% of the company's shares after their investment, after which their combined net worth will nearly double from $ 6 billion to $ 10.5 billion.
This investment lays a very solid foundation, not only in the fight against Zuckerberg, but in the idea itself.
“There are currently two parallel paths in terms of technology,” said 40-year-old Cameron Winklevoss. There is a centralized path like Facebook or Fortnite that is one step away from the metaverse, and there is another path, the decentralized metaverse, and this is a metaverse that we think has a lot of choice, independence and opportunity, and technology. which protects the rights and dignity of people. "
Returning to the confrontation, this is not the first time the brothers grappled with Zuckerberg. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, Olympic rowers from the distant 2008 rose to fame in early 2010 when Columbia Pictures released David Fincher's The Social Network, which chronicles how they hired classmate Mark Zuckerberg to create a social network for students. university. After a lengthy lawsuit that mainly focused on the question of who founded Facebook? The brothers in 2011 agreed on what seemed like a very paltry $ 65 million in Facebook stock and cash at the time. In 2013, they spent about $ 11 million buying what at the time was estimated at 1% of all bitcoins in existence. Turning my new passion into a cryptocurrency licensed exchange.
And in the end, we get a repetition of this story. Zuckerberg, in 2019, launched Libra (Today Diem), his own attempt to capitalize on the underlying bitcoin blockchain technology. A consortium of potential cryptocurrency users including Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe, and Visa are dedicated to creating technology that would tie the Libra cryptocurrency to a basket of national currencies, including the US dollar and British pound sterling.
However, shortly after the announcement, the group largely disintegrated due to concerns from US lawmakers over an initiative led by a firm that so controversially sold influence on its users' behavior. Months after Zuckerberg launched Libra, Tyler and Cameron have once again paved the way for Walled Garden thieves. As a reminder, Walled Garden is a user access control environment where companies like Facebook own and profit from user data. Returning to the brothers, in the third act of the story, which unfolded in November 2019, Tyler and Cameron bought Nifty gateway, a market for then-almost unknown assets that now form the building blocks of the metaverse. According to the site nonfungible.comSince the acquisition, when industry sales were less than $ 2 million in thirty days, it has grown to $ 3,7 billion in 30 days in September and $ 1,8 billion today.
How did Meta respond?
Meta showed a prototype of VR gloves.
The Meta company first showed a prototype of the device, which was developed by the Reality Labs division, writes The Verge. Gloves are equipped with drives in the palm and fingers area, with the help of which the effect of interaction with objects will be transmitted, which will allow you to feel the grip of an object or touching its surface.
The company has been working on this technology since its acquisition of Oculus in 2014. The glove already analyzes the environment and changes the pressure in the individual actuators, creating an imitation of touch. For example, when touched, you can feel how an object is pressed into the skin, and if you take it in your hand, the glove will create a feeling of resistance, which is already a big breakthrough in this technology, since a small step for a person is a huge leap for humanity.
True, before the release of mass production of gloves is still very far away. The developers want to reduce the size of the device itself, while increasing the number of drives. The end result may surprise and excite the world, at least I want to believe it ...
Next time, when it comes to the metaverse, we will try to consider 2 more cool projects - this is Nvidia Omniverse and the Unity meta.
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