Facebook is now called ‘Meta’

Subject – Science and Tech

Context – Facebook is starting its metaverse journey by rebranding itself as Meta

Concept –

‘Meta’ in Greek means ‘after’ or ‘beyond’. The overall Facebook Company will now simply be called Meta. However, the Facebook app will retain its name and there’s no change for other apps.
But Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger are now all under the company ‘Meta’— like Google has all its products under the umbrella company Alphabet.
Meta has a new logo as well, which is sort of like the symbol for infinity.
The way Mark Zuckerberg is envisioning the ‘metaverse’, it will go beyond the internet as we know it, with interoperability, avataars, natural interfaces, teleporting, Home Space, presence, digital goods being some of the key features of this metaverse.

To know about Metaverse, please refer October 2021 DPN.

To know about Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), please refer August 2021 DPN.