Facebook invests in Europe, it will create 10,000 new jobs in five years all dedicated to the metaverse, the technological platform of the future, an interconnected set of experiences that involves both the digital and the physical world.
"The region will be put at the center of our plans to help build the metaverse that has the potential to help unlock access to new creative, social and economic opportunities," explain Nick Clegg, Vice President of Global Affairs, and Javier Olivan, Vice President Central Product Services in making the announcement.
In the region, crucial for the social network giant, an institutional debate on competition and privacy has been underway for some time.
"This investment is a vote of confidence in the strength of the European technology industry and in the potential of European technological talent. Europe is extremely important for Facebook", underline Clegg and Olivan, recalling the investments already made by the company as "the laboratory European research center on Artificial Intelligence in France and the Facebook Reality Labs headquarters in Cork ". "One of the most urgent priorities - they add - is to find highly specialized engineers, a recruitment campaign will take place throughout the region". "It is a vote of confidence in the strength of the technology industry and in European talent, even here in Italy. Facebook is atthe beginning of an exciting journey to help build the IT platform of the future and European talents will shape it right from the start ", comments Luca Colombo, Country Director of Facebook Italy.
The term metaverse was first used by Neal Stephenson in the novel Snow Crash, a classic of the cyberpunk genre published in 1992. It is considered the new frontier of the Internet, a great new virtual world where users, through their avatars, live multimedia interactive experiences. A kind of evolution of the Second Life phenomenon, on which the giants of 'gaming' are already aiming. Mark Zuckeberg months ago he already anticipated wanting to invest in this sector that is combined with the investments he has been making for some time in virtual reality and augmented reality viewers. A first step of Facebook towards the metaverse can be considered the Horizon Workrooms tool, launched a few months ago that allows you to work in a shared virtual environment in which you interact with the movement of your hands.
The metaverse could therefore be a new digital eldorado, a large shared space as the Internet is now, in which various technology companies will build their own 'homes' in which the avatars of users with smartphones or other devices will move. And like all digital spaces, rules will arise. "To bring about all this, collaboration and cooperation between companies, developers, creators and politicians will be necessary", notes Facebook, which addresses the EU. "It has an important role to play in defining the new rules of the internet - conclude Clegg and Olivan - European politicians are at the forefront of helping to include European values such as freedom of expression, privacy, transparency and people's rights, in the functioning internet newspaper.Facebook shares these values and over the years we have taken significant action to support them. We hope for the completion of the Digital Single Market to further support Europe's current strengths, as well as stability on international data flows that are essential for a thriving digital economy. "
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