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马克扎克伯格的虚拟现实部门可能是赔钱 ——但有一个国家发现这项技术很有用：哥伦比亚上周成为世界上首批在 Meta 的元宇宙中举办法庭听证会的国家之一。
这个南美国家的立法者使用 Horizon Workrooms 举行了两个小时的听证会，Horizon Workrooms 是一个允许团队通过虚拟工作空间聚集在一起的元平台。
哥伦比亚律师戴上虚拟耳机参加会议，会议在 YouTube 上进行了直播。与会者以计算机生成的化身出现在会议中。
据参加虚拟会议的人说，听证会取得了成功，其中一名原告试图起诉警方。 “在司法程序的发展中使用信息技术的基本目的是促进和加快这些 [执行司法] 的过程，”马格达莱纳法院法官玛丽亚·维多利亚·奎诺内斯·特里亚纳 (María Victoria Quiñones Triana) 说。
尽管并非所有调到流媒体的人都认为这是个好主意：一些人评论说看到卡通人物是荒谬的。一位观众评论道：“我觉得这让（案件的）严重性降低了。” “如果我想看到自己是恐龙角色，那也可以吗？”
这是哥伦比亚立法者首次举行完整的虚拟听证会——但在世界其他地方，已经举行了使用 Meta 技术的听证会：当地媒体报告 去年 9 月，一家中国法院举行了一次虚拟会议。
2020 年 COVID-19 大流行期间，虚拟法庭听证会和一般会议成为常态。
随着各国政府在全球范围内实施封锁，专业人士转向视频会议 Zoom 平台开会，推高了公司的股票和发送 它的市值飙升。
对技术的突然过度依赖意味着一些奇怪和古怪的情况：一位似乎不习惯使用该平台的德克萨斯律师得到了像小猫一样卡住 当他无法更改视频过滤器时。
但与每个人都作为卡通数字角色举行的整个会议是另一回事。
Meta，以前称为 Facebook，已向元宇宙技术投入数十亿美元，但尚未取得财务上的成功：其元宇宙现实实验室在 2022 年第四季度亏损高达 42.8 亿美元。
尽管如此，Meta 首席执行官扎克伯格已承诺对该领域进行更多投资。 “推动我们路线图的两大技术浪潮是今天的人工智能，以及从长远来看，元宇宙，”他上个月表示。
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