Metaverse of Facebook | What are you working on to achieve it?

Although it seems like a science fiction story, the metaverse desired and described by Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, It is a reality that will gradually take shape in the technological world, despite the criticism and concerns surrounding it.

“There are going to be new ways of interacting with devices that are going to be much more natural than pressing a keyboard or button. You are going to make a gesture, or say a few words. You will even only have to think of an action to do it “the founder of the social media giant was excited on Thursday.

The billionaire announced that his company will now be called “Meta”, like the Greek word that means “beyond”, but also as a metaverse, for metauniverse, that parallel world that, according to him, represents the future of the internet.

For its detractors, the Californian group seeks with this strategy distract attention from the numerous damages for which you are accusedfrom the spread of disinformation to the abuse of a dominant position in the online advertising market.

But beyond a possible political strategy, the metaverse encompasses devices and lifestyles that already exist, for a minority, like autonomous cars.

Progressive immersion

Since the launch of the Oculus brand Quest 2 virtual reality headset a year ago (acquired by Facebook in 2014), around 1.87 million devices have been sold worldwide, according to researchers at the Statista center.

Right now they are mainly used for immersive games, with knobs and controls to simulate a tennis match, for example.

Facebook It has also started to build more informal spaces, such as “work rooms”, where participants appear around a round table as personalized avatars that look like cartoon characters.

We are still a long way from Ernest Cline’s dystopian novel “Ready Player One”, in which most of humanity escapes from a world in crisis by entering a global virtual reality (VR) system, through a viewer, tactile gloves or clothing.

“But in five or ten years, many of these technologies will become commonplace”Zuckerberg said during his presentation from a virtual home with a paradisiacal environment, listing the technological bricks necessary to build this parallel universe.

The equipment, VR helmets or augmented reality glasses, will not only project images in very high definition and 360 degrees, but also They will also be able, through sensors, to reproduce the physical appearance of a personFrom the grain of your skin to your facial expressions, ultra-realistic and in real time.

Looks into my eyes

Facebook you are working on a different helmet than Oculus, called Cambria, which would be more comfortable to be able to wear it for a longer time and would have new tools.

“Avatars can look into each other’s eyes naturally”, celebrated Angela Chang, director of virtual reality devices at Meta. “We combine a battery of sensors with algorithms for reconstruction of the physical world, with depth and perspective”he explained.

For mass adoption, the metaverse will also need a open operating system, in which users can easily pay for virtual objects and transport them from one world to another, such as clothing.

The Californian group aims to promote the emergence of an ecosystem of companies that create programs for this new Internet.

Zuckerberg has estimated that within ten years the metaverse could represent “One billion users, hundreds of billions of dollars in digital commerce and millions of jobs for creators and developers”.

This will require ways to protect transactions and intangibles. For this, decentralized blockchain technology could be used, which has allowed the emergence of cryptocurrencies such as “Bitcoin” and the NFT (digital certificates of authenticity for online content).

“Our priority will be the metaverse, not Facebook”Zuckerberg stressed. “This means that, over time, you won’t need to use Facebook to access our other services “.

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