MWC 2022: Mark Zuckerberg invites companies to build metaverse

MWC 2022: At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 in Barcelona, Spain, the erstwhile Facebook and now Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the social media giant was inviting companies to build the metaverse together.

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“Today, we’re at the start of the next transition as we build for the metaverse, but creating a true sense of presence in virtual worlds delivered to smart glasses and VR headsets will require massive advances in connectivity. Bigger than any of the step changes we’ve seen before,”  Zuckerberg was quoted as saying by BGR India.

According to the report, Zuckerberg’s message was expanded by Meta’s VP of Connectivity Dan Rabinovitsj, who in a blog post stressed on the fact that developing metaverse would require a global effort.

 “No single company, or industry, can do this alone. Creating the metaverse will require a global effort and we invite partners to collaborate with us on this new journey,” he wrote in a blog post.

Rabinovitsj said that the metaverse will reach a ‘billion people around the world, host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce, and support millions of jobs for creators and developers’.

However, delivering such an experience to people across the globe would require innovations in a variety of fields including hybrid local and remote real-time rendering, video compression, edge computing, and cross-layer visibility, spectrum advocacy, work on metaverse readiness of future connectivity, cellular standards, network optimisations, and improved latency between devices and within radio access networks (RANs) among other things.

“Overcoming these challenges will take a global effort that no single company, or even industry, is capable of sustaining on its own…But the lesson of the mobile era..shows how powerful the connectivity industry can be when it works together to serve the world,” he added.

On the sidelines of the MWC 2022, Meta also announced a partnership with Telefónica as a part of which the two companies will establish a Metaverse Innovation Hub in Madrid in a bid to accelerate metaverse network and device readiness through tests and trials.

“Through this Metaverse Innovation Hub, Telefonica and Meta plan to provide local startups and developers with access to a ground-breaking 5G laboratory where they will be able to utilise a metaverse end-to-end testbed on Meta and Telefónica’s network infrastructure and equipment,” Meta wrote in a blog post.