Facebook will create a product team to work on the "metaverse," a concept that involves creating digital worlds that multiple people can inh

Facebook creates exec team to work on Mark Zuckerberg's vision for a digital universe

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2021-07-28 13:00:03

Facebook will create a product team to work on the "metaverse," a concept that involves creating digital worlds that multiple people can inhabit at the same time.

The metaverse team will be part of Facebook's virtual reality group, Reality Labs, executive Andrew Bosworth said in a Facebook post on Monday.

"Today Portal and Oculus can teleport you into a room with another person, regardless of physical distance, or to new virtual worlds and experiences," Bosworth wrote. "But to achieve our full vision of the Metaverse, we also need to build the connective tissue between these spaces -- so you can remove the limitations of physics and move between them with the same ease as moving from one room in your home to the next."

Technology companies and executives have started to increasingly discuss building a "metaverse" as a successor technology to smartphones and the mobile internet. Generally, technologists consider a metaverse a virtual world where large numbers of people can gather to play, work and socialize.

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