![]() According to the announcement video, the new company is working on a new headset called Project Cambria. Hardware-wise, Meta will use a mixture of VR and AR devices. On the surface, this makes sense considering that both Minecraft and Roblox are sandbox-type games that allow their users to build almost anything they want (including building a working smartphone inside of Minecraft). The Verge described it as “part Minecraft meets Roblox” with a collaboration tool also built in. On the software side, Meta is building a platform called Horizon. It also encompasses the notion of having the digital interact with the physical in a natural way. That said, the full expression of a metaverse won’t persist entirely in a virtual reality. In many ways, it’s a concept Epic Games has been playing with in Fortnite to more success than any other attempt so far. It seems like Mark Zuckerberg and the new company Meta want to take the concept of social media to its logical conclusion, allowing people to make fully digital versions of themselves in a virtual utopia. You can conduct business, attend school, and even get married completely in the OASIS. Like Snow Crash, people in Ready Player One interact in the OASIS, a virtual reality that allows you to basically do anything and be anyone you want. If that also sounds like another popular sci-fi novel ( and movie), Ready Player One, you’d be correct. Where today we primarily interact with other internet users through smartphones, tablets, and desktops, Zuckerberg imagines a future where we interact with 3D avatars of ourselves in a fully immersive world. In an interview with The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg stated that he believed that the metaverse was the future of the internet. In that book, humans live in a dystopian world where people leave the real world in lieu of a virtual world. This is a relatively new term, popularized in the 90s sci-fi novel Snow Crash. It’s not unlike what Google did with creating the Alphabet company to encompass the larger goals of the company beyond Google Search and its other Google-branded products. ![]() Meta has already established a Twitter account and created a Facebook page that explains the details of the change. The Oculus virtual reality brand is going away entirely, which makes sense as Meta is incorporating the virtual reality aspects of Oculus - such as the Quest 2 VR headset - into its goal of creating the metaverse. However, Meta will encompass all of the other Meta-owned properties such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook. The actual website and mobile app Facebook will still exist as a social network platform. Wait, so does that mean Facebook is dead? Meta Major tax services are sending your data to Meta and Google How to get your share of Facebook’s $750M settlement ![]() Meta is building a space-age ‘universal language translator’
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