{"id":2421,"date":"2021-08-07T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/now-zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-be-master-of-the-virtual-universe-alex-hern\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:58:12","slug":"now-zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-be-master-of-the-virtual-universe-alex-hern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/now-zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-be-master-of-the-virtual-universe-alex-hern\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be master of the virtual universe | Alex Hern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social media magnate has evidently decided that the \u2018metaverse\u2019 is the way forward. But should we be worried?<\/p>\n<p>Brace yourselves: Mark Zuckerberg has a new pivot for Facebook. The visionary genius who brought us the pivot to video, the pivot to privacy, the pivot to trusted news and the pivot away from trusted news is now preparing for the latest turn: the pivot to the \u201cmetaverse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe metaverse is a vision that spans many companies \u2013 the whole industry,\u201d Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22588022\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ceo-metaverse-interview\">told tech news site the Verge in an interview last month<\/a>. \u201cMy hope, if we do this well, I think over the next five years or so, in this next chapter of our company, I think we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/07\/now-zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-be-master-of-the-virtual-universe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1d9035da4cf63793dba1a8254314edc7e2da9a49\/211_364_5045_3027\/master\/5045.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a4b521ac50da7069eec80638a6b136f4\" title=\"Now Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be master of the virtual universe | Alex Hern\" \/>The social media magnate has evidently decided that the \u2018metaverse\u2019 is the way forward. But should we be worried?<br \/>\nBrace yourselves: Mark Zuckerberg has a new pivot for Facebook. The visionary genius who brought us the pivot to video, the pivot to privacy, the pivot to trusted news and the pivot away from trusted news is now preparing for the latest turn: the pivot to the \u201cmetaverse\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThe metaverse is a vision that spans many companies \u2013 the whole industry,\u201d Zuckerberg told tech news site the Verge in an interview last month. \u201cMy hope, if we do this well, I think over the next five years or so, in this next chapter of our company, I think we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social media magnate has evidently decided that the \u2018metaverse\u2019 is the way forward. But should we be worried? Brace yourselves: Mark Zuckerberg has a new pivot for Facebook. The visionary genius who brought us the pivot to video, the pivot to privacy, the pivot to trusted news and the pivot away from trusted news &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/now-zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-be-master-of-the-virtual-universe-alex-hern\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be master of the virtual universe | Alex Hern<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}