Zuckerberg’s sentiments in the recent interview showcase the company’s increased efforts to make AR and VR technologies a reality and to see them apply to different areas in people’s lives away from entertainment. “Next-generation devices would give people infinite workspaces with configurable virtual screens, whiteboards, and other visionary tools,” the company wrote in a blog post. The social media giant is building a “ deep tech stack and tools” to carve out the future of remote work, in which travelling for work is optional, and you can work from anywhere. Facebook’s head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, showcased a short clip on Twitter in 2020 around their ultimate mission of “supercharging remote work and productivity” using these two technologies.įacebook plans to tackle emerging needs brought about by an increasingly distributed workforce as Email, chat, and video are no longer cutting it. Zuckerberg says the application could permeate into workplaces as well. The company’s cash splurge on VR and AR is based on the premise that these technologies could be used far beyond entertainment. It also purchased Oculus in 2014 for $2 billion and has been making Oculus-branded consumer faced VR headsets since. The company bought CTRL-labs, a neural interface platform company, for approximately $1 billion, adding it to Facebook Reality Labs, it’s home of AR and VR technology, in September 2019. As a major agent of AR technology himself, Zuckerberg envisions a future where smart glasses could be normal-looking and provide a user with the ability to see content alongside the real world.įacebook investments in augmented reality(AR) and virtual reality(VR) are growing, showing its dedication to developing the next computing interface after the smartphone.

The second family apps under Meta’s Reality Labs division will encompass its Metaverse ambitions with new platforms such as Horizon Workrooms, Horizon Home, and Horizon Worlds, among others.He sees AR as the key to cut down on travel or commute time. “Over time, I hope that we are seen as a metaverse company and I want to anchor our work and our identity on what we’re building towards as part of this, it is time for us to adopt a new company brand to encompass everything that we do, to reflect who we are and what we hope to build” New Products RevealedĪt the event, Zuckerberg stated Meta had separated its operations into two divisions: a family of social media apps which include Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we’ll play and connect in 3D. Zuckerberg concluded his speech, stating Facebook rebranded as Meta as the former name could not “possibly represent everything that we’re doing today, let alone in the future.”Īnnouncing - the Facebook company’s new name. You’ll be able to spend more time on what matters to you, cut down time in traffic, and reduce your carbon footprint”

This will open up more opportunity no matter where you live. “In this future, you will be able to teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the office without a commute, at a concert with friends, or in your parents’ living room to catch up. Users can teleport to distant locations, view real-time 3D content and avatars to feel “truly present with one another,” which is a goal shared since launching Facebook back in 2004, Zuckerberg explained. In his speech from an extended reality (XR) stage broadcasted on the Reality Labs page, Zuckerberg said the Metaverse would be “an embodied internet” with fully immersive, ubiquitous experiences. He explained the Metaverse would be an interconnected world of virtual and physical content seen as the successor to the Internet in the coming years and involve open standards for connecting worlds seamlessly, which users can access via virtual, augmented, or mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) headsets and smart glasses.

Speaking at the event, Zuckerberg said the name change, which comes from the Greek word for “beyond”, would allow the company to expand its reach beyond designing social media platforms to developing the Metaverse.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Chief Executive and Founder, explored the possible use cases for Meta’s future extended reality (XR) goals at the Facebook Connect event. Facebook revealed on Thursday it would change its name to Meta to encompass the work it wished to achieve in the next phase of the social media giant’s development.

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