Why Facebook Is Rebranding To Meta?
Mark Zuckerberg has a new job title. On Thursday, he officially became the CEO and chairman of Meta
The rebrand is about solidifying the social media giant as being about the metaverse. which Zuckerberg sees as the future of the internet.
Zuckerberg has been pouring billions of dollars — at least $10 billion this year alone — into building the metaverse
This is an expansive, immersive vision of the internet taken from the pages of sci-fi novels like
Snow Crash
and
Ready Player One
.
This is an expansive, immersive vision of the internet taken from the pages of sci-fi novels like
Snow Crash
and
Ready Player One
.
In the next decade, he thinks most people will be spending time in a fully immersive
3D version of the internet that spans not just Meta’s hardware such as the Quest, but devices made by others.
The software underpinning Zuckerberg’s take on the metaverse is called Horizon.
It’s part
Minecraft
meets
Roblox
with an application for work collaboration as well.
“TO ME PERSONALLY, IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE ARE RUNNING TOWARDS SOMETHING”
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