Back in October 2021 Facebook anounced that company will rebrand itself into ,,Meta” – in the effort to embrace the metaverse concept
“The metaverse is essentially a massive, interconnected network of virtual spaces. In theory, we’ll be able to move from one virtual world to another in the metaverse, but we’ll be wearing virtual reality goggles or maybe augmented reality.” says Rabindra Ratan profesor at Michigane state University
Technologies that are currently very well developed(such as VR googles, will play a crucial role in bringing metaverse to life. Companies like Meta are already investing in branches related to the metaverse as they try to enter this market and beat their competition. Tech giants trying to monopolize this decentralized space just as they did with WEB3. It raised concern aoround the question if the metaverse will really be a decentralized space or just a new stage of WEB2.
Nevertheless it is important to monitor this new concept as Metaverse concept with will be much more present in our daily life
Resources:
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/metaverse-impact-world-future-technology/story?id=82419587
Changing the name is one thing, being different (in this context: more responsible company) is another thing. Finger crossed for FB, but still a bit skeptical about chance of the metamorphosis of the mentioned social platform. We will see…