{"id":13807,"date":"2021-10-18T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T19:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=13807"},"modified":"2021-12-03T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:13:09","slug":"facebook-to-hire-10000-in-eu-to-build-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/facebook-to-hire-10000-in-eu-to-build-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to Hire 10,000 in EU to Build &#8216;Metaverse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facebook announced Monday that it plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years to help build the Metaverses &#8211; an online world where people can move and interact with different devices in a virtual environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been discussing metaverse since July, and the buzzword, first used in a dystopian novel three decades ago, is also used by other technology companies such as Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zuckerberg wants the Metaverse to be accessible via VR, AR, PC, mobile devices and game consoles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, the social media giant plans to create a larger &#8220;virtual presence&#8221; that looks like a personal interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Covid-19 pandemic has moved much of corporate meetings online, leading to the rise of conference applications like Zoom, and major technology companies are trying to capitalize on this shift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facebook, which has invested heavily in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), including companies like Oculus, wants to connect its nearly three billion users across multiple devices and apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tech giant has already pledged $50 million to build the Metaverse and try out a new Remote Work app, where users of Oculus Quest 2 headsets will be able to hold meetings as avatar versions of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the original story from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announced Monday that it plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years to help build the Metaverses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-13807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-facebook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13849,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807\/revisions\/13849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}