The End Of Knowledge - Vault 7/285 - xHubAI - 30/05/2025 - 🌐UN MUNDO VIRTUAL

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Plácido Doménech and Antonio Flores Galea open the double session by celebrating the hundredth episode of X-Habay, then dive into the freshly translated Spanish edition of Galea’s book on the metaverse, originally written in English for the US market and updated to include recent AI breakthroughs. They argue that the metaverse, once a media-burned buzzword, will finally take shape between late 2025 and 2026 as affordable mixed-reality glasses, generative AI content pipelines, and 6G bandwidth converge. The discussion moves from hyper-realistic digital humans to predictive scene generation, showing how AI can lighten rendering loads by forecasting where users will look next.
Antonio stresses that the metaverse is not an escape pod but a layered extension of the physical world: traffic signs will hover as holograms, living-room lights will switch on when we gaze at them, and our avatars will be indistinguishable from ourselves. Plácido links this to the ancestral human urge to tame the environment, comparing cave paintings to today’s virtual worlds. They warn that when digital beings satisfy emotional needs better than humans, many will prefer synthetic relationships, risking addiction to perfected avatars and abandonment of bodily reality.
The conversation turns philosophical, invoking Wheeler’s “it from bit” and Baudrillard’s simulacra to claim that information, not matter, is the ground of being. Our brains already construct reality from limited data; soon mixed-reality lenses will seamlessly edit that data, making virtual concerts of long-dead stars feel more vivid than dusty arenas. They foresee personal AI agents that clone one’s personality, attend meetings in one’s stead, and negotiate bureaucracy while the biological self sleeps.
Ethical flashpoints appear: should parents edit embryos to natively perceive augmented layers? Will states or megacorps control the brain–cloud interface? China’s R1 model and Huawei wearables are cited as evidence that geopolitical and commercial battles will shape who owns the scaffolding of our new realities. The speakers close by predicting that around 2030 AGI, 6G, and ubiquitous glasses will erase the line between atoms and bits, leaving humanity to decide whether it remains “monkeys in the dust” or becomes “gods dreaming the cosmos.”

30 Key Ideas:

1.- Metaverse delayed but arriving 2025-26 with AI content and cheap mixed-reality hardware.

2.- AI predicts user gaze to reduce 360° rendering load and boost virtual realism.

3.- Personal agents clone personalities for autonomous meetings and bureaucratic chores.

4.- Mixed-reality glasses will overlay traffic signs and light switches directly into vision.

5.- Digital humans will satisfy emotional needs better than real people for many users.

6.- Cave paintings and metaverse both express human desire to reshape surroundings.

7.- Information, not matter, forms reality according to Wheeler and quantum insights.

8.- Synthetic avatars may cause addiction and abandonment of physical bodies.

9.- 6G bandwidth plus edge AI will synchronize virtual objects with millimetre precision.

10.- China’s R1 model and Huawei wearables signal geopolitical race for metaverse control.

11.- Embryo editing could create “virtual natives” who perceive AR from birth.

12.- Brain–cloud interfaces risk state or corporate control over human cognition.

13.- Virtual concerts of dead artists will feel more real than historical recordings.

14.- JPG compression inspires AI to drop unseen pixels and save GPU cycles.

15.- Ready Player One predicted layered realities merging virtual and physical worlds.

16.- Digital twins negotiate parking fines while biological self rests at home.

17.- Gamification turns offices into Zelda-style 2D maps for employee engagement.

18.- Fire discovery mirrors today’s leap from atoms to programmable bits.

19.- AI can render a star that exploded millennia ago as if it shines tonight.

20.- Loss of agency and identity tracked by MIT AI Risk Repository project.

21.- Second Life foreshadowed persistent economies inside virtual spaces.

22.- Westworld’s hidden door illustrates selective perception in constructed realities.

23.- Universal assistants will integrate across glasses, clothes, shoes, and contact lenses.

24.- Smart fabrics measure sweat and heartbeats for hyper-personalised workouts.

25.- Pandemic accelerated digital tickets, e-gov, and remote commerce adoption.

26.- Free Guy explores NPCs gaining consciousness inside simulated worlds.

27.- Baudrillard warns that illusion dies when the real becomes impossible.

28.- Future generations may view physical exercise as archaic as lighting fires with sticks.

29.- AGI arrival around 2030 will coincide with 6G and immersive device maturity.

30.- Humanity may transition from “dust monkeys” to “cosmos-dreaming gods” through AI.

Interviews by Plácido Doménech Espí & Guests - Knowledge Vault built byDavid Vivancos 2025