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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 everyone might be raring to dive

into the med averse what we did find someone was. amelia ham pill has this report for us. me. we finally reached the age of the matter. 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's so convinced that v r is the future with that he's rebranded his whole company as matter. now we have a new norm to help bring the better versus de la mosque is less enthusiastic and see if someone's dropping the brigand screen to their face all day and no one to it to 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 match 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 your laptop or computer screens and if you're feeling a bit lonely, no tropical mountain office matters. horizon work cream lets you meet up with your colleagues. 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 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 you will avatar can go on a scenic war, can chat when you're in the v r set up and you can see their hands moving in their through their, their body moving. you see these, these cute that a lot of nonverbal q, and you're able to get a feel for chemistry without giving away any of your privacy, any of your information. you worry about getting catfish to fight my avatar or something like that. well, 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 will lead to a successful relationship. most people who try planet theater are not hoping to have a mental verse. 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, maybe even a movie. you have to be verified as over 18 to enter climate data. but what about security or rational once you're in that? so how do you moderate people, the thing with things? you just silence them? that's right. if you sign with them, you can't hear him anymore and they'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 matter? oh, i guarantee it. people have already dated that we're in our play test, but we are confident that there's 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 yet. 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? whoo, maybe some bowling instead. ah, a big challenge i found with the match over. 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 matter 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 the tommy hilfiger brian . but what's 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 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 events in the virtual world. it was founded by plumas face engineer mary speedo 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 companies 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 commerce 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 seen the physical things done in the myth of us. 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, it's going to be 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 that 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. tula is founder, 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 haley services like goober 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, intervention was required. chinese, autonomous vehicles could following the path 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 cars from 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 in roads. what you'll 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 projecting national power. economic goals are not legal, some eagles, national security. but the goal is so big power competition between the countries. so that's what's being pursued in these policies are not no hoster in the auto 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 electrically powered and 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 it's 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 v

gunned wants to show us what lilian's phoenix to prototype can do to and cindy test, it will just flights are incredibly important to us so that we can test the physics of yourcraft the visit. how the control software relates to the arden, amex, from a structure and the error when 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 look test and turn the phoenix to is projected to cost around $4000000.00 euros. the prototype still flies without a pilots. it steered remotely from this control point. 30 engineers and software experts attend each test flight d, the fluke east. riverside is a new chapter where you've got be to 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 a bit. eights on how to have you been treated. after several hours of preparation, everything is ready. 36, electro rotors 1st lift the aircraft vertically into the. then they turn horizontally and it sets off. 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 pilots and 6 passengers. lillian hopes to start sales as early as 2025. it's been your inter nerve if i'm an engineer who is it? i understand the physics behind the sarah, crafting food. when i look at it and see a flying, it's even like a miracle to me,

how the whole team and all those to operate safely. business looked like c shirts from the time has start up. recently went public, it has ambitious aims. daniel began to 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. is only possible that emerged once a noise could allow us to set up a new regional transport. so stunning in which we connect cities with a helpful vertical take off electric aircraft and far higher speeds than as possible with ground traffic born and st. 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. no, it was. this is a new mobility system offered by air taxes will only be successful, long term. the month if it is accessible and affordable for al,

but even 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. laura? hi, this is called ogre sandy's and product is the aircraft is emissions free, which is a huge 1st step using actually 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 now hi, good mancha for now, the phoenix to we'll head back to the hangar was 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 a challenge of logistics. thousands of delivery trucks ply, 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. 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 would transport

containers on 3 lanes. swiss companies have joined forces to build the mammoth project. although it's wednesday night. so there'll be 3 lanes in the tunnel home and the vehicles will be on wheels. not on rails, as many people assume living and d, me, but in the middle lane would be for sorting and short term storage. what we called buffering and sequencing. although it's not an overtaking line, but hold more like a slow down lane, so to speak. and so to soften the tunnel begins at 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 the private money. to sit down,

we're well on track. lot there still work to be done. we have time guide. it's important for the investors that renewable energy are used to power them, make a project and about choice of a long term solution above all else. it has to be sustainable and energy efficient design. and if it's again for term is become a bit over use. but this really is an issue that's driving us in the transport on the street from tribe in that hunter for songs when we're designing something new. it's one of our biggest arguments is that the carbon footprint, at least our new mode of transport is acceptable either knowing transport madrid, shouldn't the operate his promise cell use only renewable energy, but will the tunnel be financially viable? ultimately, that depends on how successfully committed to sunday. i personally can't imagine it operating at a profit any time soon on this and does it for,

for 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 her communication to the da spin of history and forget the skills that come with it. luckily olaf krieger 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 crate. 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, it can sense your moody expression. put a smile, your voice kreger. oh, if it were sort of something that will work for you. so what's important be friendly, 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 box didn't always answer either. do do, do they didn't do duty. and now it's time for us to hang up, log off and power down. we hope you enjoy the show. thank you for joining us for

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