New ‘CBS Mornings’ Series Will Probe Life in Metaverse
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTony Dokoupil has recently traveled to Medyka in Poland, Miami and Minneapolis, too. Over the course of a career in journalism, he has visited all 50 states in the U.S.
Even so, he will be stepping onto new terrain when he launches a new series on Thursday on “CBS Mornings.”As part of “Mornings in the Metaverse,” set to air weekly, Dokoupil will take viewers of the CBS News program into the virtual-reality realm that experts are predicting will eat up more of our overall bandwidth in months and years to come.
In real life, the anchor might use a microphone to interview passers-by, all with a camera crew in town. When he used a Meta headset to visit a virtual-reality venue recently, Dokoupil brought producers with him, who used their line-of-sight with their own headsets as ersatz cameras to capture the conversations he had with other users.
The interviews “made me very convinced that this is the next big thing,” says Dokoupil, in a more traditional interview conducted via Zoom. “What was incredible was how quickly my brain stopped thinking about this as virtual reality and just took it as reality.
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