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embarrassment of sweaty hats, life changing technology. that's what we're talking about today in made in germany . later in the show will be looking at china's driverless cars, whether flying taxis are finally ready for take off and autonomous freight in switzerland. but 1st, we start with the secrets of the met averse. you might be surprised to hear this, but the idea of life in an immersive 3 di digital environment doesn't appeal to everybody. that's according to audience research firm g, w i, a global survey. it launch show that 40 percent of respondents said they were simply not interested in the matter verse. many just prefer the real world to an artificial one. and over 20 percent of those surveyed said they were worried about

data protection in this brave new world. now not every one might be raring to dive into the met averse, but we did find someone was emilia ham pill has this report for us. me. we finally reached the age of the met me. the idea is that will soon be using this interactive virtual reality well, where we can play games, work shop and communicate together in real time. perfect marks talk about it so convinced that v r is the future with that he's rebranded his whole company as matter. now we have a new north star to help bring the better 1st. healing mosque is less enthusiastic and see someone scrapping the brigand screen to their face all day and no one to it . never leave i. it seems no way. and some check leaders have even warned that the

matter of us has the potential to be the most dangerous technology. since the invention of nuclear weapons, none of this is thought businesses from piling in on virtual world investment. greenberg met of us market could be worth $800000000000.00 by 2024. everyone it seems wants to get in on the action. so i found myself to be all had sent. got involved to wow. i seen it can here. so let's start with the virtual working. you can connect to a laptop or computer screen, and if you're feeling a bit lonely, no tropical mountain office matters, horizon work cream. let you meet up with your colleague. this is basically the virtual reality version of the place where the advertise famously have no legs. after all that work, it felt like time to something social a us start up the planet feta is pioneering online dating in the us. hello chris,

my virtual days. lovely to meet you. nice to meet you. so my avatar going that route here. we've set up a number of places to be able to either organically meet new people or through our micro dating, which is it over here to your left. in the v i p area, it's like a quick kind of speed date. and if it goes well then they can go on to a coffee date that's a little bit longer. and if that goes well, then you can get together and go to the different dating areas. chris took me to the enchanted forest where your avatar can go and seen it walk and chat. when you're in the v or set up and you kind of see their hands moving in their, their, their body moving. you see these, these cute that a lot of non verbal cues. and you're able to get a feel for chemistry without giving away any of your privacy, any of your information, to worry about getting catfish to fight my avatar or something like that. so

there's always that room just like an in india. they could try to be dishonest about what they look like or who they are, but that won't lead to a successful relationship. most people try planet theater or not hoping to have a med, diverse, only relationship that they're hoping to use this as a tool to meet people. chris also tells me that planning to introduce in wells comedy shows a casino and maybe even a movie. you have to be verified as over 18 to enter planet data. but what about security or harassment once you're in that? so how do you moderate people, the thing with things? you just silence them? that's right. if you silence them, you can't hear him anymore and there'll be another button that makes them actually disappear. so you won't even be able to see them. do you think it will find real low on air in the math of a? oh, i guarantee it. people have already dated that we're in our play tests, but we are confident that there is going to be a lot of people who are going to meet in a way that just wouldn't that were they would not have connected on

a traditional dating out sport. and fitness is a big selling point for the art, but the headset is quite big and heavy. so i can't imagine doing this for a long time. what about some boxing woo, maybe some bowling instead. ah, a big challenge i found with the mattress so far is that it's quite hard to navigate. there are so many virtual worlds and different platforms to try. you end up having to create a new avatar for each experience and then constantly paying to download separate applications and games. the most popular virtual worlds by far still the big interact of games like roblox fortnight and league legends. if you want more freedom and fewer rules, you centralized that of us game worlds like sam box or d central and run using block chain technology. this means that users can own and

control parts of the environment. you have to use crypto tokens to buy things like digital clothes for your avatar or virtual land if you want to stop building your very own met diverse empire the rapper snoop dog has created a virtual ranch in the sandbox, mcgrath. he shot a recent music video, there is planning some concepts and also throws exclusive parties to attend those. you have to purchase one of his limited edition and f t party passes. so i can't give you a sneak preview of what goes on there. unfortunately, for the companies and brands willing to get creative, there's big financial opportunity here. but where's the best place to start? i got in touch with charles hamburrow, the ceo of a market intelligence platform, called geek. they analyze metabolic data and help brands develop their entry strategy. i think the winners are the ones that treat this space or frantically,

and really look at best as a long time opportunity inside virtual environments, the business model isn't advertising. that's not how riot gains makes money. they make money free the pairs. so when a brand gets involved, they have to really think about this quite happy and enrich the experience, add value to the experience. so we partner brands like gucci with the sports organizations, tommy hilfiger, for example. we put them inside the world of roblox and created a virtual environment where individuals can interact with tommy hilfiger. brian, but was very interesting about that. is tommy hilfiger working with content crazes from the community to actually co create digital products with the brand. right now my v, our budget doesn't quite stretch to kicking out my avatar in trendy design again. but one experience i am intrigued by is digital concept. see, we are allows you to attend night concord from both in the virtual world. it was

founded by plumas face engineer mary p. o. back in 2015. and at that time was everything was really limited to gaming. and so i said, wow, because of the social nature of the metaphors, i knew immediately that would be perfect for everything that you do in a communal fashion, such as going to a concert which is going to a sports gain. i think that there are huge opportunity for small company pick. for example, feet we have these humongous mass of virtual arenas. we have an unlimited capacity. the metaphors goes way beyond v r. it's also creating avatars is creating a whole commerce around our digital twin. but as we all know, wherever the call must going on, this going to be security issues. we're going to risk taking in here without even realizing every type of bad behavior as we see the physical world can be done in

the met averse. i think people do not realize the amounts, the kinds, the sources of data that some of the companies are collecting on us or that thong yeah, algorithms will failure. what we see, how we see it, what is a given to us. you have the potential for skin ability going ability of the good or but also skin ability of the evil am. well the potential to matter, verse is huge. i was perfectly happy to get back to the real world again. maybe i need to reconsider that snoop go potty and f t. i remember those early days when we used to refer to the internet as the information super highway. well, digitally driven cars, as an unsure,

furred by humans are soon making their way on to actual highways. now we've been hearing that for a while, but by do sometimes called china's google has kicked it's autonomy vehicle project into high gear, hoping to leave america test thought in the dust bay. jane correspondent, i'm isn't here. so hit the road. ah, china struggling cars seem to be going from 0 to $100.00. these one is and it's u. v, where the driver and even steering wheel are optional. search engine turn a i developer by do and build a model just last week. and some of its older models are already being piloted on beijing ropes. toola east founder and managing director of sino or 20 sites, the paging base auto industry consultancy firm. when we talk barava tax is that still far a ways out. he says, the chinese companies, what consumers to get familiar with the cars, by 1st offering them as right hailing services like uber or dd except robotic. but

real life hazards could delay full commercialization by many years. specifically in china, there are a lot of scenarios where we wouldn't see them in germany where we might have a cell unsure or delivery vehicle or motor bike that's crossing lanes without the proper notification and things like that. and so we're still quite a ways away from point to point where you call a car like a dd. there's no driver in it, it picks you up and it takes you anywhere you want to go in. any weather in any season by do claims is newer models have level 4 autonomous capabilities requiring no human interaction. righty. surprisingly smooth that some point we run into other cars into motor bikes, into pedestrians. and the car has been able to successfully maneuver by itself. faculty who can kinda take that wasn't who we ran into some legally, par carson, an arrow road that for the robot taxi drive against a traffic here,

innovation was required. shaneesa thomas vehicles could following the part of electric vehicles and be exported overseas. that concerns over data collection good getting the way china europe and the u. s. are all racing to write laws that govern . they use these to prevent smart carson using a vast amounts of data doing these ranges from mapping data to says in vicious like phases and license plates collected by own board. cameron sensors, especially around sensitive areas, including military zones and government agencies, underscoring some of those concerns. china has been buried tesla from parts of the country. i top chinese leaders visit. in these regard, chinese, driverless car makers may be better poised to dominate their whole market. even the foreign players can adapt to chinese data loss. it's still unclear to what extent can make significant inroads. what you likely see is the bifurcation chinese companies and in american companies dominating in their perspective loan regions

and then may be competing for regions like europe, south america, some like chinese. and just a policy expert, michael freak. prostate farther seen is simply about project and national power. economic goals are not the bagels, the eagles, national security being gone. so the power competition between the countries. so that's what's being pursued in these policies are not no cost for the auto. oh thomas, vehicle market. we roll out of autonomous vehicles now happening in both china and the us. the battle for tech supremacy, good. moving into the streets and from the streets to the sky is air attack. seas could be ready for take off in the foreseeable future. management consultancy role on berrago says that around 5000 of these airborne

vessels could be in circulation by 2030. and by 2050. that number could soar beyond 160000. our reporter miguel. i and hannah visited one company from munich, here in germany, who wants a lift off, or it's flying ferries before others can claim air supremacy. this is the next big thing when it comes to getting a bounce. it's an electrically powered ant taxi and they could see me thousands like it in our skies. germans don't up. liam is competing with around a 100 companies worldwide to develop the best technology and be the 1st ticket is aircraft approved for use. we're at the atlas test center in spain. normally activities here, a top secret, but today, for the 1st time,

we're allowed to bring our camera in. company founded daniel vigour and wants to show us what lilian's phoenix to prototype can do. soon cindy test, it will test flights, are incredibly important to us so that we can test the physics of the aircraft, the visit, how the control software relates to the ard and i max from the structure and the error. but we also wanna test how our operations procedures function you and so the, during the certification program, i mean we can conduct the tests as efficiently as possible and test the phoenix to is projected to cost around 4000000 euros. the prototype still flies without a pilots. it steered remotely from this control point. 30 engineers and software experts attend each test flight. did of

lucas? every flood is a new chapter where you've got the flu test flying is like testing the boundaries one latrice and then the next also makes you also have to be ready to take a step back in the bit ites. and i hope to have you been treated after several hours of preparation. everything is ready. 36, electro rotors 1st lift the aircraft vertically into the and then they turn horizontally and it says self. daniel, vigour and is proud of his unique concept. but some experts are skeptical about whether the electro jet will really be able to achieve its promised 250 kilometer range. the air taxi has room for one pilot and 6 passengers. lily m hopes to start sales as early as 20. 25 is when you're into nerve. if i'm an engineer who is it? i understand the physics behind the scenes. crafting food was when i looked at it

and she has flying. it's even like a miracle to me, how the whole team and all those to operate safely is this looked like c shirts from the time the start up recently went public. it has ambitious aims. daniel v. gandy certain that in just a few years, his company will have a $1000000000.00 turnover. at axis could offer an alternative to both cars and trains. only deposit will be best immediately once a noise could allow us to set up a new regional transport. substituting in which we connect cities with a helpful vertical take off electric aircraft and far higher speeds than as possible with ground traffic born tons, paul chaffin can but who will be able to afford this form of travel? experts say initially just business travelers and wealthy individuals, but that could soon change this noise. we'll get to the new mobility system offered

by air taxes will only be successful long term to month if it is accessible and affordable for ela. but that's why the sectors working on gaining exceptions among the population as well as an early mass production of to currently lower costs. there were still questions like, where will the aircraft take off and land and what about noise pollution? what's clear is that the new technology will be climate friendly, florida. hi, this record august sundays, and product is that the aircraft is emissions free, which is a huge 1st step using the next step involves being able to prove that we can make its production and the recycling of the vehicle and its batteries. but similarly sustainable implies not hybrid monica for now, the phoenix to will head back to the hangar. most it will be flying regularly over the spanish olive groves, testing the bounds of reality blue.

so back on terra firma now and 2 very earthly problems. companies, especially those who produce consumer goods like food, clothes, or furniture, are always confronted with the challenge of logistics. thousands of delivery trucks, i kilometers of road every day to bring products to stores and often get stuck in traffic in the process. but switzerland may have hit upon an ingenious solution. our reporter, milltown schmidt, has the story ah, has switzerland taking inspiration from its own cheese. the smiths are expert tunnel builders. they use that knowledge to solve many transport obstacles on their mountainous roads. now they want to build another tunnel solely for the transport of goods in it's designed to relieve traffic, protect the environment, and save energy like everywhere else in the world's traffic jams,

a common here that means a lot of energy gets wasted, but there's plenty of space under grounds, driverless vehicles which transport containers on 3 lanes swiss companies have joined forces to build the mammoth project. although it's wednesday night, so there will be 3 lanes in the tunnel and the vehicles will be on wheels. not on rails. as many people assume livingston and di meter in the middle lane would be for sorting and short term storage that we called buffering and sequencing. although it's not an overtaking line, you could hold more like a slow down lane, so to speak. and so to soften the tunnel begins that the country's largest airport in zurich, that's where a lot of air freight arrives. the initial tunnel will be 70 kilometers long. a whole network will follow later. construction is very expensive. 3000000000 euros have been budgeted for the 70 kilometers,

all financed with private money. we don't, we're will on track law. they're still work to be done. we have time by. it's important for the investors that renewable energy, they used to power them, make a project in about sort of a long term solution above all else. it has to be sustainable and energy efficient design. and if it's can, but hermas become a bit overused. but this really is an issue that's driving us in the transport on the street type, then that hunts for longer when we're designing something new. it's one of our biggest arguments is that the carbon footprint of this, our new mode of transport is acceptable. is us knowing transport midnights shouldn't be operators, promise they'll use only renewable energy, but will the tunnel be financially viable? ultimately that depends on how successful it is committed to certainty. i

personally can't imagine it operating at a profit any time soon on. this is dustin from infrastructure projects don't pay off over 3 years and maybe over 30 or 50. think the investments are simply too high. without government subsidies, there may be no light at the end of this tunnel. now after that journey in to the high tech universe, it's worth asking, what happens to low tech? i don't have a landline, most of my friends don't, but i guarantee you have people in your life who still deal. and if they matter to you, maybe you shouldn't be so quick to confine low. it's hard communication to the da spin of history and forget the skills that come with it. luckily olaf krager is here to remind us just how that works again was oh yes you use to commute

that used to be once with bottles, rotary dials even. chris, the younger generation couldn't do much with these things to day people message, zoom and post. they use things like what's up but whatever the method of communication etiquette is important.

hello? was that what he won? okay, that's not right. how should you answer the phone? smile, even though the other person can't see you, they can sense your moody expression. put a smile, your voice creegan. oh. if it were so the little something that will work for you. so what's important be friends play that's the most important thing. speak clearly and slowly so that you easily understood and finally give the other person the sense that you're interested and take them seriously. and by the way, you don't always have to answer the phone. bonds. didn't always answer either. do do, do they didn't do duty again, and now it's time for us to hang up,

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