Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg surprised the world during the Facebook Connect conference by announcing Meta, a name change for Facebook (as a parent company, not as a social network) that also makes it clear that the metaverso It’s Zuckerberg’s next big project, and maybe the next big tech trend.
Meta is now the company that houses Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. However, yesterday the company only announced new experiences for the metaverso with Messenger (part of Facebook) and virtual reality products that can be enjoyed with Oculus headsets.
Are WhatsApp and Instagram in the plans within the metaverse?
The metaverse proposes that social interactions through digital media will have a high degree of presence of other people, which means that you will perceive and feel the presence of your friends or guests as you have never done before thanks to virtual experiences . Marco Casarin, Meta’s director in Mexico mentioned Unocero:
“I estimate that since Facebook as a company began to develop and acquire other platforms is where the concept of metaverse began to emerge. Today Meta defines much better what we are doing, where we are investing and what our users can use today ”.
Likewise, he stressed that the metaverse is a set of digital spaces that includes hybrid experiences empowered at a level of what is physically possible thanks to augmented reality and virtual reality.
“All our platforms are going to evolve to offer experiences within the metaverse,” he mentioned, so despite the fact that there is no specific plan to share at this time on what the experiences of Instagram and WhatsApp will be like in the metaverse, he assured that they will be there.
Meta wants to encourage innovation
The manager assured that the metaverse will be a great ecosystem that will promote 3 things: extraordinary experiences; a model that will lead to the generation of economic value; and, an always downward trend in any cost issue. What together they will mean a “very high permanent innovation”, he stressed.
Also, I assure that the metaverse will be an open world for everyone who wants to and can join to do so.
“We want others to be there, for others to innovate, to build the metaverse. The metaverse is an invitation to people to create and build on it, and that they also define the future of the metaverse ”.
Unlike other products where you can only purchase a digital product to use in a game or app, this will not happen in the metaverse. The goal of the metaverse is for everything you buy for your avatar to work across the entire metaverse.
On the other hand, in Meta they assure that the metaverse will solve one of the great problems of current technology such as the digital divide.
“There is a digital divide that we do not want to widen, the metaverse is going to close the digital divide. We want people to communicate and create community and value among themselves, that is why our products have no cost. The metaverse will evolve exponentially over time ”, Marco Casarin mentioned.
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Marco Casarin mentioned that Facebook is a company that emerged with the ideal of giving people a voice. And he stressed that the company is aware of the challenges and obligations of building this great world that combines realities.
He also mentioned that this new project has been built from scratch with everything learned in his experiences with Facebook products regarding privacy and data security.
“The metaverse arises from an organization that starts from what has been learned from past experiences. It is built from its inception to include everything we have learned and what we continue to invest in around data management and data privacy ”.
He stressed that the company will invest 10,000 billion in research and development for the metaverse, while in the last 5 years 15,000 million dollars have been invested in increasing content, privacy and security protocols. This year, $ 5 billion will be invested to continue innovating in these practices.
There are currently more than 40,000 people contributing to this cause. “We know we have more to do and learn,” said the executive.
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