{"id":148023,"date":"2022-10-12T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/questions-meta-needs-to-answer-about-the-metaverse-at-connect"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:24:12","slug":"questions-meta-needs-to-answer-about-the-metaverse-at-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/questions-meta-needs-to-answer-about-the-metaverse-at-connect","title":{"rendered":"Questions Meta needs to answer about the metaverse at Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/questions-meta-needs-to-answer-about-the-metaverse-at-connect.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So at this year\u2019s Connect, which kicks off at 10 AM PT tomorrow with a keynote from Zuckerberg, the stakes feel even higher. And we still have a lot of questions about what it really means to be a \u201cmetaverse company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s perhaps the most obvious issue, but in the nearly a year since Zuckerberg first attempted to articulate what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/facebook-metaverse-meta-explained-or-not-120032885.html\">a metaverse is<\/a>, it\u2019s still not very clear. Last year, Zuckerberg described it as \u201can embodied internet where you\u2019re in the experience, not just looking at it.\u201d The company\u2019s website currently says the metaverse is \u201cthe next evolution in social connection and the successor to the mobile internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But what those words mean to most people is fuzzy at best. \u201cOutside of early adopters and tech-savvy people, there\u2019s still confusion as to what is the metaverse and what we\u2019re going to be doing with it,\u201d says Carolina Milanesi, a consumer analyst with Creative Strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So at this year\u2019s Connect, which kicks off at 10 AM PT tomorrow with a keynote from Zuckerberg, the stakes feel even higher. And we still have a lot of questions about what it really means to be a \u201cmetaverse company.\u201d It\u2019s perhaps the most obvious issue, but in the nearly a year since Zuckerberg [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}