Facebook‘s new name is now “Meta.”CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company rebrand as he opened the company’s annual conference on virtual and augmented reality on Thursday.
He emphasized what he described as the privacy and safety that will be built into the metaverse — effectively, a shared virtual world.In a statement published online, the company said the new name “brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand.”“Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses,” the company said in the statement.“The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical.