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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook's future lies in virtual 'metaverse'

On Monday, Facebook announced a standalone product group internally tasked with building out this vision

Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Bloomberg
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Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Bloomberg

Kurt Wagner | Bloomberg
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t just want you logging in to his company’s products. He wants you living, working and even exercising inside them.
 
That’s the very high-level idea behind the “metaverse,” a vision for the future of Facebook Inc. and the entire internet that Zuckerberg started pushing aggressively in the past week.

“In the coming years, I expect people will transition from seeing us primarily as a social media company to seeing us as a metaverse company,” Zuckerberg added. “In many ways the metaverse is the ultimate expression of social technology.”

Think of the metaverse as an immersive virtual world where people can

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