Meta revealed on June 8 the launch of Crayta, a collaborative game creation platform, on Facebook Gaming, its cloud gaming service. For Mark Zuckerberg, who wants to make Meta the center of the metaverse, this addition sets the tone: the metaverse can be accessed on any platform.
Facebook Gaming: a door to the metaverse?
Crayta is a sandbox or sandbox type video game in good French, at the crossroads between Roblox and Fortnite. It gives its players the ability to create mini-games before sharing them with other users. The game is developed by Unit 2 Games, a British studio acquired by Meta in June 2021, and runs using Unreal Engine 4, the older generation of Epic Games’ development engine.
Intel will receive several billion euros thanks to its arrival in Europe
At its output, Crayta was intended to be exclusively available on Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming service. In 2021, the game joined the Epic Games Store catalog before being announced on Facebook Gaming a year later.
For Mark Zuckerberg, the arrival of Crayta on its cloud platform will help change the vision that people, and especially skeptics, have of the metaverse. ” Today, people often think of metaverses as 3D experiences that can be experienced in virtual and augmented reality. I think Crayta shows that you can build and enjoy these kinds of experiences very easily in all sorts of 2D environments, including the Facebook app on phones and computers. “, he explains in a video.
Using cloud technology, Facebook Gaming will take care of hosting the game. Players won’t need to download it. It will only be necessary to have a Facebook account to access the platform. ” If you want to have a quality 3D environment, that would be really hard to render on a browser or a phone. Being able to use cloud infrastructure for renders and send it over the network is a pretty significant technological advancement. “says the CEO of Meta.
The metaverse is at the heart of Zuckerberg’s strategy
Mark Zuckerberg has big ambitions for the metaverse he considers ” the next chapter of the internet “. To do this, the billionaire wants to make as many people as possible aware of the technologies that will be used to connect in these future digital spaces.
To return Crayta available on Facebook Gaming is not a trivial step. The goal is to offer a taste of the metaverse to those without access to virtual or augmented reality devices. In this sense, the Californian company recently opened its first physical store, the Meta Store. The curious will be able to discover and try the various Meta products that should serve as an entry point to the metaverse.