The Facebook company will be called a goal in its turn towards virtual reality

The name change will be reflected in the New York Stock Market from next December 1, when the firm that is now traded under the acronym FB will contribute under MVRS

San Francisco (EE.UU.), Oct 28 (EFE).- The company that owns Facebook, which until now carried the same name as the social network, will change its name for that of the finish line to reflect the turn of its priorities towards what it has baptized as "metaverso", a world of virtual reality.

The CEO of the firm, Mark Zuckerberg, revealed the change of name in the framewho wants a goal to allocate much of its investments in the coming years.

The change affects only the owner company, so that the social network will continue to be called Facebook and the modification will almost have any effect on the vast majority of users.

In addition to the Facebook social network, the company is also the owner of Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus.

It is a movement very similar to that carried out by Google in 2015, when it restructured its internal organization and created a parent company, Alphabet, with several subsidiaries that include Google itself, Waymo (the Division of Autonomous Vehicles) and the supplierof the Internet Google Fiber, among others.

The name change will be reflected in the New York Stock Market from next December 1, when the firm that is now traded under the acronym FB will contribute under MVRS.

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In his presentation, Zuckerberg showed several examples that in his opinion should be the future of humanity in the "metaverso", where people would move with their personalized avatars, they would wear them with digital clothes that they would buy within that same universe and goto events like concerts.

One of the examples that the controversial co -founder of the social network presented to help understand her vision of this parallel universe was that of a girl resident in Japan who decides, through "metaverso", to go to a concert in Los Angeles (USA.UU.) Together with her best friend.

In a matter of seconds, the Japanese girl's avatar is with her friend dancing and enjoying live music, and, once the function is over, both attend virtually to a post -conscious reception in which they buy capsand artist digital shirts.

"Today we are seen as a social media company, but our DNA is that of a company that creates technology to connect people and metaverso is the next border, just like social networks were when we started," said ZuckerbergIn your presentation at the conference.

The firm's CEO gave the talk from a fictitious house in the "metaverso", for which he was walking, he went room in a room and in which occasionally some of his friends appeared and disappeared to pour ping games-Pong, play chess or surf.

Video games, in fact, were the aspect in which the most emphasis was made during Thursday's presentation, and Zuckerberg explained that they are called to play a fundamental role in the development of this parallel universe.

In mid -October, Facebook announced the creation of 10.000 new jobs in Europe in the next five years, with the objective precisely to shape the "metaverso".

The name change takes place at a time when the company is in the eye of the hurricane after the filtration of thousands of internal documents by an ex -employed who indicate that Facebook (in the future, goal) systematically puts its interestscommercial to welfare and user security.