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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
Technology
Asharq Al-Awsat

Meta Working to Speed Up Metaverse, but Success Far from Certain

This file photo illustration taken on October 28, 2021, in Los Angeles, shows the Facebook-like logo on a smartphone in front of a computer screen showing the parent company META logo. (AFP)

A year after rebranding itself from Facebook into Meta, the social network titan is striving to make the metaverse a routine part of daily life, offering users new features and promoting new virtual reality gear.

But analysts say the company has toned down the hype a bit as it struggles to reach its goal of creating an interactive virtual world that it sees as the next phase of online activity, AFP said.

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