Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced that Facebook will be named as Meta. Back in Thursday, at the Connect Event of Facebook, Metaverse and the subsequent changes of Facebook has been discussed. To be more specific, Meta will be the mother company of Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.
“Together, we can finally put people at the center of our technology. And together, we can unlock a massively bigger creator economy.” – Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook doesn’t represent everything that the company does now. As a result, they decided to change the name. Facebook is not a just social media platform. The company offers several services across several apps. Rebranding unifies the entire gist of the company.
“But over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company.” – Mark Zuckerberg
– Mark Zuckerberg
What’s Metaverse?
Metaverse is a sci-fi concept right now. You see, Neal Stephenson coined the term back in 1992. In the novel by Neal, Snow Crash, metaverse referred to a perfect 3D world where people use avatars to interact with one another.
In the same way, Mark Zuckerberg is developing “meta.” You see, the company is already working with 3D, AI, and VR. According to meta.com, it says a lot about AR, VR, and smart glasses right now. Therefore, soon there will be online infrastructure trends. Not to mention, a real-time 3D world is coming. This is gonna be a bigger leap in technology, to be more precise, towards virtual reality. That is pretty much a brief about Meta, Metaverse, and Facebook.
Internet is a dynamic territory. The concept may take time to absorb by all. However, you can consider online multiplayer games. You can play with your buddies, you can have your own avatars and your virtual presence has more interactions with others across the world than you can do in the real world. Metaverse is going to take things a bit far than everything we have now.
The objective of Metaverse is to connect more people, regardless of the boundaries that we have in real life. The virtual presence will allow everyone to communicate with anyone around the globe. Thus you can do everything sitting in front of your computer. Eventually, that will benefit people with time, money, and effort. Consider the bigger picture.
Event Summary
Currently, Zuckerberg holds the Twitter account @meta and meta.com as well. However, the URL leads to a “Welcome to Facebook.” Not to mention, previously the site redirected to meta.org which is a biomedical research project of Chan Zuckerberg. The Zuckerberg couple founded that philanthropic wing in 2015.
In the Connect Event, the company mentioned that the corporate structure will be the same. There will be two operating segments namely Family of Apps and Reality Labs. Zuckerberg says the way they use and share data will not be affected in the future.
Wrapping Up
The world is running fast. Technology is changing our lifestyles every now and then. People can develop themselves through social media faster than doing something in real life. Meta is making a way to help everyone to be in a unified virtual world. Stay tuned for more updates on Meta, Metaverse, and Facebook.