Facebook to Metaverse

 Mark zakerburge says


it is time for us to adopt a new company brand to encompass everything that we do
to reflect who we are and what we hope to build

i am proud to announce that starting today our company is now meta

our mission remains the same

still about bringing people together

our apps and their brands they're not

changing either

and we are still the company that

designs technology around people

hey and welcome to connect

today we're going to talk about the

metaverse starting with the most

important experience of all connecting

with people

imagine

you put on your glasses or headset and

you're instantly in your home space it

has parts of your physical home

recreated virtually it has things that

are only possible virtually and it has

an incredibly inspiring view of whatever

you find most beautiful

hey are you coming yeah just gotta find

something to wear

all right perfect

oh hey mark hey what's going on what's

up

whoa we're floating in space uh-huh who

made this place it's awesome right it's

from a crater i met in l.a uh this place

is amazing

baz that you of course it's me you know

i had to be the robot man i thought i

was supposed to be the robot

whoa

i knew you were bluffing

hey wait where is naomi let's call her

naomi

hey should we deal you in sorry i'm

running late but you've got to see what

we're checking out there's an artist

going around soho hiding ar pieces for

people to find

3d street art that's cool send that link

over so we can all look at it

this is stunning okay that is something

that's awesome wow i love the movement

wait it's it's disappearing this is

amazing hold on i'll tip the artist and

they'll extend it wow

privacy and safety need to be built into

the metaverse from day one

you'll get to decide when you want to be

with other people when you want to block

someone from appearing in your space or

when you want to take a break and

teleport to a private bubble to be alone

you're going to be able to bring things

from the physical world into the

metaverse almost any type of media that

can be represented digitally

photos videos art music movies books

games you name it

lots of things that are physical today

like screens

will just be able to be holograms in the

future

you won't need a physical tv it'll just

be a one dollar hologram from some high

school kid halfway across the world and

you'll be able to take your items

and project them into the physical world

as holograms in augmented reality too

one part of this

is horizon home which is our early

vision for a home space in the metaverse

horizon home is the first thing that

you'll see when you put on your quest

headset

today there are already a bunch of

options to choose from and in the future

anyone will be able to create one

we've just called it home until now

because it's been missing something very

important

people

soon we're going to be introducing a

social version of home where you can

invite your friends to join you as

avatars

you'll be able to hang out watch videos

together and jump into apps together

then

there is horizon worlds which is where

you can build worlds and jump into them

with people

horizon is designed to make it possible

for everyone to create and we're already

seeing people build some really

interesting experiences from creating

new games together to throwing surprise

parties and vr that family and friends

around the world can join

over the last year and a half a lot of

us who work in offices have gone remote

and while i miss seeing the people i

work with i think remote work is here to

stay for a lot of people so we're going

to need better tools to work together

let's take a look at what working in the

metaverse will be like

imagine if you could be at the office

without the commute you would still have

that sense of presence shared physical

space those chance interactions that

make your day all accessible from

anywhere

now imagine that you have your perfect

work set up and you can actually do more

than you could in your regular work set

and on top of all that you can keep

wearing your favorite sweatpants

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and as we focused more on work and

frankly as we've heard your feedback

more broadly

we're working on making it so you can

log into quest with an account other

than your personal facebook account

we're starting to test support for work

accounts soon

and we're working on making a broader

shift here within the next year.

i know this is a big deal for a lot of

people not everyone wants their social

media profile linked to all these other

experiences and i get that especially as

the metaverse expands and i'll share

more about that later.

but i'm genuinely optimistic about work

in the metaverse we know from the last

couple of years that a lot of people can

effectively work from anywhere but

hybrid is going to be a lot more complex

when some people are together and others

are still remote.

so giving everyone the tools to be

present no matter where they are whether

it's a hologram sitting next to you in a

physical meeting or in a discussion

taking place in the metaverse that's

going to be a game changer i think this

could be very positive for our society

and economy

giving people access to jobs in more

places no matter where they live will be

a big deal for spreading opportunity to

more people

dropping our daily commutes will mean

less time stuck in traffic and more time

doing things that matter and it'll be

good for the environment

we plan to continue to either subsidize

our devices or sell them at cost to make

them available to more people

we'll continue supporting side loading

and linking to pcs so consumers and

developers have choice rather than.
Thaks to all

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