This has been huge to increase awareness on the topics we work on every day. Everyone with an internet connection has got to know that one of the most important companies in the world has even changed its name to focus on immersive realities and this thing called “the metaverse”. Zuck’s announcement has been reported everywhere, and this has been a very powerful endorsement for immersive technologies. Mah, to me it is just a drawing of a line that a 12-year kid could make better, but I probably think this because I’m not ready for the metaverse. Its logo seems a line bending to represent the infinite… but this is just how we illiterate people see it: according to Facebook blog, it is a logo that has been drawn with a Quest, and it is a logo that has to be seen in 3D and in motion because it is a logo ready for the metaverse.
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The name “Meta” has been chosen because it means beyond, but especially (let’s be honest) because it represents the first four letters of “Metaverse”. The reason is that if Facebook manages to become a big platform in the metaverse, it could take a share of all the transactions happening there: it could exploit a market worth many billions of dollars every year. He also explicitly talked about blockchain and NFTs.
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He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. It is interesting to underline that Zuck wants to keep selling ads also in the metaverse, but he has bigger plans: he also wants to dominate the metaverse creators’ economy. The company has stated that in 2021 it will spend $10B for the metaverse, and that in next years that expense will be even larger. Meta’s focus will be “metaverse-first”: that is, from now on, the main focus of the company will be building the metaverse.Even the Quarterly Earning Calls will separate the two categories, so we will have a better look on how XR is performing Meta’s products will be divided in two groups: the family of apps, that is the social media, which are the present of Meta and the future platforms, that is AR and VR, which will be the future of Meta.A new company called Meta will be created, and it will control all the products that before were under Facebook, that is: Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Portal, Oculus, etc….Then he has announced three pieces of news: