Friday, October 29th 2021
Introducing Meta: A Social Technology Company
Today at Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together Facebook's apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta's focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.
The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today's online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can't be together — and do things together you couldn't do in the physical world. -It's the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it's ushering in a new chapter for the company. Zuckerberg shared more about this vision in a founder's letter.
The annual Connect conference brings together augmented and virtual reality developers, content creators, marketers and others to celebrate the industry's momentum and growth. This year's virtual event explored what experiences in the metaverse could feel like over the next decade - from social connection, to entertainment, gaming, fitness, work, education and commerce. The company also announced new tools to help people build for the metaverse, including Presence Platform, which will enable new mixed reality experiences on Quest 2, and a $150-million investment in immersive learning to train the next generation of creators.
You can watch the full Connect keynote and learn more about how the metaverse will unlock new opportunities at meta.com. You can also learn more about the company's work over the past several months to develop the Meta brand on its design blog.
Facebook's corporate structure is not changing as Meta. However, how it reports on financials will. Starting with results for the fourth quarter of 2021, the company plans to report on two operating segments: Family of Apps and Reality Labs. Meta also intends to start trading under the new stock ticker that the company reserved, MVRS, on December 1. Today's announcement does not affect how the company uses or shares data.
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
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The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today's online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can't be together — and do things together you couldn't do in the physical world. -It's the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it's ushering in a new chapter for the company. Zuckerberg shared more about this vision in a founder's letter.
You can watch the full Connect keynote and learn more about how the metaverse will unlock new opportunities at meta.com. You can also learn more about the company's work over the past several months to develop the Meta brand on its design blog.
Facebook's corporate structure is not changing as Meta. However, how it reports on financials will. Starting with results for the fourth quarter of 2021, the company plans to report on two operating segments: Family of Apps and Reality Labs. Meta also intends to start trading under the new stock ticker that the company reserved, MVRS, on December 1. Today's announcement does not affect how the company uses or shares data.
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
108 Comments on Introducing Meta: A Social Technology Company
Then again if people stopped posting their facebook and twitter feeds around here as news we would never know.
Thought the boy was a vegan
Regarding VK, it's Russian, so copyright probably has a harder time reaching there than it would Facebook, that lives on the "West".Such is the destiny of social media. Specially when they do a Facebook and prioritize profits over quality.
I see family being manipulated by it.
They purposely pit people against other.
They find that one issue that makes people angry one way or another
Most of us have known this but now that it's absolutely clear they've been doing it in the name of profit they charge their name? And it's okay now?
I wish I could sue this crap out of it's existence for ruining my country.
I mean, does he force you to use any of his apps? Social media is here to stay.
Social Media and privacy are an oxymoron.
We are on a terrific social media site right now.
Purposely putting for profit anger driven click bait and misinformation is not okay.
However, we're in the situation where many people refuse medical assistance, because they know better from something someone posted on FB. And it seems the head honchos at FB are going out of their way not to regulate content. I know regulation is a very hard nut to crack, but I'd like to see them at least try harder.
Myself... abandoned all social media about 5 years ago. Best choice ever made. Now I watch it from the sidelines and slowly but surely every dystopic reality you could envision coming from it, comes out.
Fun fact... the only things I miss are the filler content, its appearance on social media, including the scandals, is in fact the perfect confirmation its complete and utter nonsense you can ignore/filter out in the sea of information. And the current revelations regarding Facebook only underline that further: more exposure for meaningless stuff that just generates more clicks. Anyone using FB today is just a sheep, and ever since this information is out in public, you're a Lemming staying there. Not just stupid, but also in full knowledge of it. You can't even say ignorance is bliss anymore, you have to explicitly choose to put blinders on to not see it.
Note my avatar and the buttons on that washing machine there, in case you haven't yet :)FTFY
So, this is Facebook's 'Alphabet' move?
My comment would be longer, but it'd either be too negative, or violate TOS
This, is very bad.
Or Cambridge Analytica.
etc etc
He does force you to take part, you don't even have a choice. And when that business model flows back to regular society, you once more, don't really have a choice. Today every discussion is spent 80% of the time debunking all social media BS that flew by lately.
I have reddit but thats only to sell some stuff.
Get on Gab.