How Facebook will transform according to Zuckerberg
Facebook will create a product team to work on the "metaverse", a concept related to virtual reality
Facebook will create a team dedicated to the "metaverse". That is a "meta-universe" where real and virtual merge, a science fiction vision already existing in video games.
The new ambition will depend on the virtual reality and augmented reality division, but also on Instagram and Facebook Gaming.
“We have to build the connective tissue between digital spaces, overcome physical limits and be able to move with the same ease as between the rooms of our home. The main feature will be the feeling of really being there with people, 'said Zuckerberg.
Facebook, the world's largest social network, has invested heavily in virtual reality and augmented reality, developing hardware such as its Oculus VR headsets and working on AR glasses and wristband technologies.
The metaverse embodies the future of social networks, according to Mark Zuckerberg, who hopes in 5 years to become "the metaverse society".
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A NEW TEAM WITHIN FACEBOOK
Facebook is starting a product team to work on the "metaverse".
The team will be part of Reality Labs, the company's virtual reality organization, group executive Andrew Bosworth said in a Facebook post.
Vishal Shah, the executive in charge of Instagram's product, is among those joining the new Facebook metaverse group.
WORKING ON THE METAVERSE
The metaverse is a parallel cyberspace in which a community of people can interact in the form of avatars. The metaverse is closely related to virtual reality and augmented reality technologies currently being developed by Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft in addition to Facebook. Some video game communities have already created embryos of meta-universes, such as Roblox (a platform that includes myriads of games created by children and teenagers) or Fortnite (which boasts 350 million players).
"You can think of the metaverse as an embodied Internet, where instead of just viewing the content, you're in it," Zuckerberg told The Verge in an interview last week.
"I believe the metaverse will be the successor to the mobile Internet and creating this product group is the next step in our journey to help us build it," Zuckerberg announced in his Facebook post on Monday.
MR ZUCKERBERG'S BET
Zuckerberg said he thinks it makes sense to invest heavily to shape what he bets will be the next big computing platform.
As reported by The Information in March, the Menlo Park group has around 10,000 employees working on virtual reality.
As CNBC pointed out, Facebook is investing heavily in AR and VR technologies. The latter offer the company the ability to control their hardware platform if they end up taking off, rather than being subjected to the rules that Apple and Google put in their app stores.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/come-si-trasformera-facebook-secondo-zuckerberg/ on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:17:23 +0000.