Liam Tung
| October 18, 2021
| Topic: Innovation
Facebook is today’s AOL
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Facebook has unveiled plans to hire 10,000 employees within the European Union over the next five years to help build its virtual world concept known as the ‘metaverse’.
Facebook sees the metaverse as the next frontier of web development that it believes will bring virtual reality and augmented reality to the masses.
Facebook expects many products will only be fully developed in the next 10 to 15 years.
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Since the pandemic, the main apps that business and education users have turned to are Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. AR and VR haven’t made much impact at all.
However, Facebook in August launched Horizon Workrooms in a bid to bring virtual reality to conference rooms. It’s an online tool Facebook has used internally for meetings with remote workers in the pandemic and requires the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset to function.
The two metaverse announcements notably come in the wake of Facebook whistleblower Lances Haugen’s damaging claims that Facebook hides information from the public and governments around the world, and that it hid research showing that Facebook-owned Instagram causes young people mental harm.
Facebook, in a blogpost on Sunday, also contested that its AI had little impact on stopping hate speech on its platforms. That was one of the issues raised in documents Haugen leaked in what’s known as The Facebook Files, some of which suggested Facebook intentionally exploits divisive content to make more profits.
“The argument that we deliberately push content that makes people angry for profit is deeply illogical,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month.
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Liam Tung
| October 18, 2021
| Topic: Innovation