The company’s divisions focused on products for communities, creators, commerce, and virtual reality would increasingly work to realize this vision, he said in a remote address to employees. Instead, he said, Facebook would strive to build a maximalist, interconnected set of experiences straight out of sci-fi - a world known as the metaverse. The future of the company would go far beyond its current project of building a set of connected social apps and some hardware to support them. As June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative.
