Fb is making a product group to work on the “metaverse,” a digital world the place individuals can transfer between totally different gadgets and talk in a digital surroundings, CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on Monday.
The group shall be a part of the corporate’s digital actuality group, the group’s govt Andrew Bosworth mentioned in a Fb publish.
“You’ll be able to take into consideration the metaverse as an embodied web, the place as a substitute of simply viewing content material – you’re in it,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg advised The Verge in an interview final week.
Fb, 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 workers engaged on digital actuality, The Info reported in March.
Zuckerberg has mentioned he thinks it is smart to take a position deeply to form what he bets would be the subsequent massive computing platform.
“I consider the metaverse would be the successor to the cellular web, and creating this product group is the subsequent step in our journey to assist construct it,” he mentioned on his Monday Fb publish.
He advised The Verge: “If we do that properly, I believe over the subsequent 5 years or so … we’ll successfully transition from individuals seeing us as primarily being a social media firm to being a metaverse firm.”
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