Every chapter brings new voices and new ideas, but also new challenges, risks, and disruption of established interests. I’ve gained more appreciation that the internet’s story isn’t straightforward. One of the main lessons I’ve learned is that building products people love isn’t enough. ![]() The last five years have been humbling for me and our company in many ways. We’ve built our business to support very large and long term investments to build better services, and that’s what we plan to do here. We believe the metaverse can enable better social experiences than anything that exists today, and we will dedicate our energy to helping achieve its potential.Īs I wrote in our original founder’s letter: “we don’t build services to make money we make money to build better services.” Our role in this journey is to accelerate the development of the fundamental technologies, social platforms and creative tools to bring the metaverse to life, and to weave these technologies through our social media apps. It will be built by creators and developers making new experiences and digital items that are interoperable and unlock a massively larger creative economy than the one constrained by today’s platforms and their policies. The metaverse will not be created by one company. This isn’t about spending more time on screens it’s about making the time we already spend better. You’ll move across these experiences on different devices - augmented reality glasses to stay present in the physical world, virtual reality to be fully immersed, and phones and computers to jump in from existing platforms. Your TV, your perfect work setup with multiple monitors, your board games and more - instead of physical things assembled in factories, they’ll be holograms designed by creators around the world. Think about how many physical things you have today that could just be holograms in the future. You’ll be able to spend more time on what matters to you, cut down time in traffic, and reduce your carbon footprint. This will open up more opportunity no matter where you live. In this future, you will be able to teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the office without a commute, at a concert with friends, or in your parents’ living room to catch up. We made a film that explores how you might use the metaverse one day. In the metaverse, you’ll be able to do almost anything you can imagine - get together with friends and family, work, learn, play, shop, create - as well as completely new experiences that don’t really fit how we think about computers or phones today. ![]() That is why we are focused on building this. Feeling truly present with another person is the ultimate dream of social technology. The defining quality of the metaverse will be a feeling of presence - like you are right there with another person or in another place. ![]() We call this the metaverse, and it will touch every product we build. The next platform will be even more immersive - an embodied internet where you’re in the experience, not just looking at it. ![]() We’ve gone from desktop to web to mobile from text to photos to video. As connections got faster, video became a richer way to share experiences. When we got phones with cameras, the internet became more visual and mobile. When I started Facebook, we mostly typed text on websites. In recent decades, technology has given people the power to connect and express ourselves more naturally. The third, modern, sense, "higher than, transcending, overarching, dealing with the most fundamental matters of," is due to misinterpretation of metaphysics (q.v.) as "science of that which transcends the physical." This has led to a prodigious erroneous extension in modern usage, with meta- affixed to the names of other sciences and disciplines, especially in the academic jargon of literary criticism: Metalanguage (1936) "a language which supplies terms for the analysis of an 'object' language " metalinguistics (by 1949) metahistory (1957), metacommunication, etc.We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it’s the next chapter for our company too. The notion of "changing places with" probably led to the senses of "change of place, order, or nature," which was a principal meaning of the Greek word when used as a prefix (but it also denoted "community, participation in common with pursuing"). This is from PIE *me- "in the middle" (source also of German mit, Gothic miþ, Old English mið "with, together with, among"). "higher, beyond " from Greek meta (prep.) "in the midst of in common with by means of between in pursuit or quest of after, next after, behind," in compounds most often meaning "change" of place, condition, etc. Word-forming element of Greek origin meaning 1.
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