Meta A Social Technology Company
Mark Zuckerberg recently launched Meta at Connect 2021, a new company brand that unifies Facebook’s apps and technologies. Meta’s mission will be to introduce the metaverse to life by assisting people in connecting, forming communities, and expanding their businesses.
The metaverse will resemble a mix of today’s online social experiences, expanded into three dimensions or envisioned into the real world at times. It will allow you to share immersive experiences with others even when you cannot be physically present with them — and do things together that you would not be able to do in the physical realm. It’s the next step in a long line of social technologies, and it marks the start of a new era for the company. In the founder’s letter, Zuckerberg elaborated on this vision.
The annual Connect conference brings together developers, creators, marketing teams, and others to commemorate the industry’s momentum and advancement. This year’s virtual event looked at what metaverse experiences might be like in the next ten years, from social connection to entertainment, gaming, wellbeing, work, schooling, and commerce. Presence Platform, which will allow new mixed reality life experience on Quest 2, and a $150 million investment in immersive learning to prepare the next generation of creators are among the new tools introduced by the business to help individuals build for the metaverse.
At meta.com, you can watch the full Connect keynote and understand more about how the metaverse will open up new possibilities. On the firm’s design blog, you can learn more about the firm’s work to develop the Meta brand over the last few months.
The corporate structure of Facebook is not evolving in the same way that Meta’s is. The way it reports financials, on the other hand, will. The company intends to report on two operating segments beginning with the fourth quarter of 2021: Family of Apps and Reality Labs. On December 1, Meta plans to begin trading under the new stock ticker MVRS, which the company has reserved. The company’s data usage and sharing are unaffected by today’s announcement.
About Meta
Meta creates software that allows people to connect, find communities, and grow their businesses. When Facebook first came out in 2004, it revolutionized the way people communicated. Apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp have given billions of people around the world more power. Meta is now expanding beyond 2D screens to include immersive experiences such as augmented and virtual reality to aid in developing the next generation of social technology.
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