htmlOn October 29, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company's Connect event that the company will officially rename Meta, which is translated as "meta" in Chinese. This also means that the famous Facebook company will devote all its efforts to the metaverse field.
Mark Zuckerberg said that the name Facebook can only represent one product of the company and does not cover most of the business scope. He hopes to make more users realize that the company is a meta-universe enterprise through the name change. Now, Meta's web page link has been officially enabled and has been directed to a Facebook welcome page, and related changes have been introduced.
Mark Zuckerberg believes that the "meta universe" will be the "successor" of the mobile Internet and will take five years to transform from a social media company to a "meta universe" company. Although Facebook is the world's leading social platform, it has been frequently blocked in its development process, such as missing the best period for the development of short videos.
Even though the company launched the short video app Lasso later, it still cannot replicate the success of Tik Tok. Perhaps Facebook can only avoid such failures by establishing its own "meta-universe empire".
Recently, we can know from the registration of the Meta Universe trademark of multiple companies that the Meta Universe is likely to become the next competitive field of Internet companies. For a time, many people may not understand what the "metauniverse" is. was originally a concept proposed by an American science fiction writer in the novel "Avalanche", but the general meaning is equivalent to a "virtual space" generated by numbers. The movie "The No. 1 Player" also intuitively showed the form of this concept.
Since it is a "virtual space", it means that the "meta universe" requires the integration of technology such as virtual reality, augmented reality, 5G, artificial intelligence, blockchain, etc., and the headset devices of augmented reality and virtual reality are equivalent to the "gate" to enter the "meta universe". At this stage, most virtual reality applications are used in games, and there are also many consumer VR headset products and relatively rich VR game resources on the market. As reflected in "Player No. 1", "virtual space" mostly refers to games.
Zuckerberg said that more than 10,000 employees in the company are already building consumer hardware such as AR glasses. A smartwatch called "Meta" was also revealed, which is said to be intended to compete with Apple's next-generation Apple Watch.
Previously, there were also reports that Apple is also developing headset devices related to the "meta universe". Perhaps in the near future, headsets will become a common electronic product for netizens, and the dimensions of human-computer interaction will be richer. Xiao Lei feels that in the future, Meta may combine the advantages of Facebook and headsets and other devices to develop an unprecedented online interaction method.
