Facebook has announced that it will create 10 thousand new jobs in the next 5 years in the European Union: according to Vice-Presidents Nick Clegg and Javier Olivan, Europe “will be put at the center of our plans to help build the metaverse, the information platform of the future, a new generation of interconnected virtual experiences using technologies such as virtual and augmented reality “.
The future beyond the Internet
What is the metaverse, explained easily
by Andrea Daniele Signorelli
The Menlo Park company explained that “in starting the journey for transform the metaverse into a reality, one of Facebook’s most pressing priorities is to find highly skilled engineers: we look forward to working with governments across the EU to find the right people and the right markets to push this goal forward, as part of an upcoming recruitment campaign which will take place throughout the region “.
What is the metaverse and why it matters
Clegg and Olivan added that “this investment is a vote of confidence in the strength of the European technology industry and the potential of European technology talent. Europe is extremely important to Facebook”, as confirmed by the investments already made by the company. as “the European research laboratory on artificial intelligence in France and the headquarters of Facebook Reality Labs in Cork”, Ireland. Again, in the words of Luca Colombo, head of Facebook Italy: “This is a vote of confidence in the strength of the technology industry and in European talent, including Italy. Facebook is at the beginning of an exciting journey to help build the IT platform of the future and European talents will shape it right up to from the beginning”.
The term metaverse was first used by Neal Stephenson in the novel Snow Crash, a classic of the cyberpunk genre published in 1992. It is considered the new frontier of the Internet, a new, large virtual world where users, through their avatars, live multimedia interactive experiences. A kind of evolution of the phenomenon Second Life, on which the giants of gaming are already focusing.
Mark Zuckeberg months ago he already anticipated wanting to invest in this sector that is combined with the investments he has been making for some time in virtual reality and augmented reality viewers. A Facebook’s first step towards the metaverse can be considered the Horizon Workrooms tool, launched a few months ago that allows you to work in a shared virtual environment where you interact with the movement of your hands. The metaverse could therefore be a new digital eldorado, a large shared space as the Internet is now, in which different technology companies will build their homes where the avatars of users with smartphones or other devices will move.
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