Facebook Turns into A Metaverse Company

Facebook Turns into A Metaverse Company

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that they will now shift Facebook from social media company into a Metaverse company. His plan to transform the company into a Metverse world began already and will lunch officially in the upcoming years. The future of the company will go beyond creating applications for interconnection purposes into a cyberspace kind of environment where users can interact with almost everything remotely.

Facebook Turns into A Metaverse Company

Facebook's Metaverse will cross the gaming metaverse idea into a wider range focusing on communities, creativities, workplaces with entertainments to create a remote environment where users could do a lot more than social networking. Users can able to create their avatars and perform regular basis works remotely no matter who runs the particular space! Zuckerberg added it will be an "embodied internet" operated by many different actors in a decentralized way. 

The company already invested a huge amount of its shares in the development of virtual reality, augmented reality products. The company is developing complex hardware for examples Oculus VR headsets and also working on AR glasses with recent acquisitions like BigBox VR and Unit2 games. 

How The Future Facebook Will Look Like:

CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted a recent meeting with his employees using a new virtual-reality remote work app with the company's Oculus Quest 2 headsets. It's now in the beta stage and going parallelly with the help of Horizon Workroom Apps. In that short video, you'll get an instance how the VR meetings will going to look like. 

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The CEO's vision is to make a more maximalist version of Facebook where exploration of the virtual world will expand and enhance to help creators, individuals, artists with more opportunities. With the above instance, you'll get an idea of how the remote conferences took place inside Facebook's recent remote meetings. Facebook's vice president of the Reality Labs division explained it as a good step towards the metaverse concept.

Obviously, with the enhancement of the Facebook metaverse, there will be enormous opportunities from the education sector to work sectors as people can engage with the internet more naturally than before. Considering one individual living at a far distance than the urban places can work efficiently in the digital world just like his real world, having no trouble at all. The recent pandemic shows us the opportunity and we can take the advantage of Facebook Oculus Devices to bend the situation in our favor. But the question is standing on today's technology there are lots of users who are still not familiar with the recent advancements of so many social networks, how they can be habituated with the three-dimensional nature [more complex at the beginning I guess] of the same social platforms?

What Data Says Now:

The company shared the video where you can get to see how it would look like to run a meeting or conference in a Virtual reality environment. Workroom App supports a pretty similar twin-like structure of its users. The app comes free with the product Facebook Quest2 headset ranging approx $300 now allowing 16 people altogether in VR world with 50 video conference recording options.

But recently Facebook halted the sales of these products as they're being reported as a bit 'clunky'. It's heard that the overall weight is much heavier and it creates skin irritation too. So a finer product will be launched soon. A number of 4 million Quest2 sets had a recall notice in the United States from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. 

American virtual reality researchers are claiming that the Facebook VR systems can have the ability to track body movements 90 times per second for showing a particular scene, which sums up 2 million unique recordings of head and hand movements in just 20 minutes. Facebook constantly trying to make their Oculus VR more specific to the task and spending billions of dollars on its development and advertisements. 

Final Thoughts:

No matter what's going to wait for us in the future, the fact is not only Facebook but also few other tech giants are working day and night to bring the metaverse into life as soon as possible. So it won't take too much time to develop its user-friendliness after launching officially in the market. Facebook shares this news at a time when they're getting serious problems regarding the acquisition of small startups. Don't know how the US government takes this matter but we'll stay tuned for updates and news regarding the future of Metaverse. What's your thought on this?