On October 28, Facebook announced that it was changing its corporate name to Meta. The renaming is associated with a serious interest in the development of the so-called metaverse. Earlier in October, Facebook announced that it would hire 10,000 people in Europe to do this.
But what is the metaverse? At first glance, it looks like an improved version of virtual reality technology that has been around for years. However, some believe that the metaverse is the future of the Internet and can be the same breakthrough for VR that smartphones were after the first mobile phones.
The Metaverse will allow the use of VR glasses to enter a virtual world that connects various digital communities. We are supposed to use a 3D avatar in this virtual world, which is very reminiscent of the future described in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One.