For the third year in a row, Meta will not hold its F8 developer conference, where it usually showcases its innovations and advances in research and development. This year, however, it is not the pandemic that is in question.
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“ As in previous years, we are taking a brief break from programming and will not be hosting F8 in 2022 while we prepare for new initiatives which are all designed for the next chapter of the internet, and the next chapter of our company too: building the metaverse “says Diego Duarte Moreira, Director of Product and Partnerships, in a blog post.
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In addition to 2020, 2021 and 2022, the firm had also canceled its event in 2009, 2012 and 2013. In addition, Meta will hold for the first time this year, on May 19, an event called Conversations. For the firm, this is its ” first conference dedicated to enterprises, developers and partners who want to create faster and better experiences on the most popular messaging platforms “.
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Meta will also hold its Connect conference. The 2021 edition was particularly rich in news, since in addition to presenting his vision of the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg announced the change of the company’s name, becoming Meta instead of Facebook. ” We also look forward to meeting you at the Connect conference later this year where we will share the latest in our virtual reality, augmented reality and metaverse platform offerings. writes Diego Duarte Moreira.
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As a reminder, the metaverse is considered the future iteration of the Internet. Users will be able to connect to this virtual world in which they will have an avatar thanks to augmented or virtual reality headsets. This concept, which is becoming more and more a reality, is now the objective and the center of the activities of Meta, which is working hard on its development, which logically explains the hiatus of the F8 conference.
” As in the early stages of the web, building the metaverse will be a collaborative effort every step of the way, with other companies, creators, and developers like you. continues Moreira, who advises developers to go to the Meta for Developers platform when needed, while waiting for the company’s future products to be developed.