Iceland is well-known for its volcanoes, glaciers and music by Sigur Ros and Bjork. Now, you can add humor to the list. Iceland’s tourism authorities have made a video mocking Mark Zuckerberg and Meta, his new umbrella company. SKY News reported.
Last month, Zuckerberg announced that the new umbrella corporation that will house Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and other social media businesses he owns will be called Meta. He also invited people to join him for what he called the “The Gathering.” “meta-verse,”A virtual reality area that allows people to interact with each other through avatars, and allow them to travel the world without ever leaving their house.
Although the Meta announcement was heard all over the globe, no one responded quite as strongly to it. “Inspired By Iceland” tourism board, which released a video over the weekend mocking the billionaire and his virtual reality idea.
The “Inspired By Iceland”People travel from all walks of life to the “land of fire and ice”They wanted to ensure Zuckerberg was feeling the heat as they relentlessly mocked him in their video.
The video features Zack Mossbergsson (Icelandic chief visionary officer) talking about the future of a. “new, immersive”This is the world that happens to also happen to be “real,”Add that “it has been for millions of years.”
“Today I want to talk about a revolutionary approach to connect our world without being super weird,”Mossbergsson stated in the video. “Some said it’s not possible. Some said it’s out of reach. To them, we say it’s already here.”
Mossbergsson was then revealed to the viewers. “Icelandverse,” a clear dig at Zuckerberg’s “Metaverse.”
“It’s completely immersive with water that’s wet,”Mossbergsson stated it in the parody video.
He also stated that the “Icelandverse” even has “skies you can see with your eyeballs.”
The video has more than 3 million views on Twitter.
Mossbergsson concludes the video by saying, “the Icelandverse is a world with possibilities that will be here forever,”Before encouraging people to visit.