Facebook said Thursday at its Facebook Connect event that it’ll rebrand itself as “Meta” to emphasize its newfound obsession with the metaverse—a digital space for work and play that may be accessed using mixed reality glasses and other devices. “I’ve been thinking a lot about our identity as an iconic social networking brand,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. “Right now our brand is so tightly linked to one product.” “Over time I want us to be seen as a metaverse company,” the CEO said. [Screenshot: Facebook]The company set the stage for this move earlier this week by saying it would begin announcing earnings as two separate divisions—one for all its existing apps, and one for all its efforts to build foundational technologies for the metaverse. Zuckerberg said the tech industry’s main focus has been on the smartphone, and innovation has been too tightly controlled. Presumably, he’s referring to gatekeepers like Apple and Google that run the app stores. “Our devices are still designed around apps, not people,” he said. [Screenshot: Facebook]“The metaverse gives us the opportunity to change that,” he said. Dr. Michael Abrash, who leads Facebook’s research on the metaverse, says that a dozen technological breakthroughs will need to happen before his company can finally build a set of AR glasses that will allow them to spend extended periods of time in the metaverse.
Login to add comment
Other posts in this group
The Apple TV is probably my favorite device that Apple makes. While the Apple TV app is in dire need
Sometimes, the simplest photo feats are the most satisfying of all.
Me? I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve needed to remove the background from an image for one reason or anothe
A federal appeals court has upheld a jury verdict condemning Google’s Android app store as an illegal monopoly, clearing the way for a federal judge to enforce a potentially disruptive shake
Apple shares rose 2% in premarket trading on Friday, after the
OpenAI has removed a controversial opt-in feature that had led to some private chats appearing in Google search results, following reporting by Fast Company that found sensitive conversa
