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Zuckerberg wants to put us all together in ‘Metaverse’: What does it look like?

Mark Zuckerberg announced that his Facebook company is now called Meta, but that doesn’t mean Facebook is disappearing. The largest social network, as well as their other applications, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger and products will continue to be under its name. But a much more significant thing in the whole story is the metaverse, Zuckerberg’s new vision of social media and the internet in the future that seems to have pulled it out of science fiction.

Although what he showed is closer to The Sims than the Matrix. He described it as a blend of virtual and augmented reality and other technologies that should allow us to create and explore with other people who aren’t in the same physical space as us. Simply put, to imagine the Internet as a 3D environment we can step into, not just as a computer or cell phone screen.

Zuckerberg showed a series of concept videos in which they try to portray what the whole thing should look like. According to them, it would be a world of interconnected virtual communities in which we can socialize, work and have fun, using augmented reality glasses, virtual reality devices or our mobile phones and other devices. They also showed the possibility of sending our holographic avatar to a concert where someone is live.

They also thought of working from home and Zoom calls, so Zuckerberg would now push us with colleagues into the virtual office. All of this should rely on new and more advanced sensors in Oculus VR virtual reality devices or the recently introduced augmented reality glasses. Facebook sees this as an opportunity and a direction for the development of the digital economy.

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