{"id":1071,"date":"2021-11-15T07:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2021-11-15T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T21:41:00","slug":"facebook-moves-to-virtual-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualrealityobserver.com\/facebook-moves-to-virtual-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Moves to Virtual Metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Facebook Connect 2021<\/a> took place recently and brought to light numerous projects the social media giant has in the works. Aside from the major, most talked-about reveal – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus will all exist under the umbrella brand Meta<\/strong> – the main takeaways for VR users and those keeping tabs on the future of immersive, interactive entertainment included the following juicy nuggets of information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrew Bosworth, head of Facebook Reality Labs, noted that Meta\u2019s goal has been \u201cto develop new use cases beyond just gaming that make VR something the people use in multiple areas of their lives,\u201d while CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta isn\u2019t simply about spending more time on screens; \u201cIt\u2019s about spending the time that we already spend better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Meta continues to push for a globally connected metaverse of its own cultivation, VR and AR fans will continue to look to what\u2019s coming out of 1 Hacker Way<\/a> and how it will propel this revolutionary tech further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Facebook Connect 2021 took place recently and brought to light numerous projects the social media giant has in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[111,94,109,110],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-cambria","tag-facebook","tag-meta","tag-metaverse"],"yoast_head":"\n
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