Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon Kofe told the COP27 climate summit it was time to look at alternative solutions for his country’s survival and this included Tuvalu becoming the first digitised nation in the metaverse – an online realm that uses augmented and virtual reality (VR) to help users interact.
Lucy Craymer
Our land, our ocean, our culture are the most precious assets of our people and to keep them safe from harm, no matter what happens in the physical world, we will move them to the cloud, he said in the video that sees him standing on a digital replica of an islet threatened by rising sea levels.
Can’t decide what’s sadder about this story: that the world has done so little to address global warming that outlandish plans such as the virtualization of an entire nation are even being considered, or that anyone would genuinely think that a virtual recreation could ever replace the original. Not to mention that VR technology is still in its infancy; it doesn’t have mass adoption, nor industry-wide standards, so any current project might become incompatible with future hardware and software solutions, effectively erasing it from existence.
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