Explained | How is Facebook embedding the real world in computing?
The story so far: On Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the rebranding of his company to Meta. Mr. Zuckerberg sees metaverse as a successor to the mobile internet and as something that will see contributions from many companies. In a recent interview to Harvard Business Review, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella said he sees the metaverse idea being fundamentally about this: “increasingly, as we embed computing in the real world, you can even embed the real world in computing”. Venture capitalist Matthew Ball wrote an essay last year: “What’s important is to recognise the metaverse isn’t a game, a piece of hardware, or an online experience. It has to be recorded, however, that Mr. Zuckerberg has in his note mentioned privacy and safety as things that “need to be built into the metaverse from day one”.
Facebook changes name to Meta to focus on building virtual-reality 'metaverse'
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