Facebook is making a product group to work on the “metaverse,” a digital world the place folks can transfer between totally different units and talk in a digital setting, CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on Monday.
The group will probably be a part of the corporate’s digital actuality group, the group’s govt Andrew Bosworth mentioned in a Facebook put up.
“You can think about the metaverse as an embodied internet, where instead of just viewing content – you are in it,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg advised The Verge in an interview final week.
Facebook, the world’s largest social community, has invested closely in digital actuality and augmented actuality, creating {hardware} similar to its Oculus VR headsets and dealing on AR glasses and wristband applied sciences.
It has additionally purchased a bevy of VR gaming studios, together with BigBox VR. It has about 10,000 staff working on digital actuality, The Information reported in March.
Zuckerberg has mentioned he thinks it is sensible to make investments deeply to form what he bets would be the subsequent huge computing platform.
“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 build it,” he mentioned on his Monday Facebook put up.
He advised The Verge: “If we do this well, I think over the next five years or so … we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”
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