Facebook launches in Spain its first attempt to build the ‘metaverse’

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Meta, the tech giant that owns Facebook and Instagram, has launched in Spain the platform Horizon Worldswhich is intended to be the company’s first step in building the long-awaited ‘metaverse’, a space for virtual reality to which to connect to play and socialize with others.

This has been announced by Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and executive director of the largest social media empire, in a publication in which he has shared an image of his avatar – his virtual character within the platform – along with replicas, little achieved, of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Starting this Wednesday, Horizon Worlds will be available to users over the age of 18 in both Spain and France, thus being the first European countries where Meta’s new social platform lands after already doing so in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. , where they accumulate more than 300,000 monthly users.

Horizon Worlds is just one of the virtual reality applications that Meta has launched to start designing the so-called ‘metaverse’, a fashionable concept in the technology industry that reflects the aspirations of creating an immersive internet in which the user submerge as if it were a video game. The company wants this space to become a parallel reality where more and more people spend their time – chatting, watching virtual concerts or holding work meetings – and where they spend their money, a dream that is still far away.

Last October, Zuckerberg announced that the parent company that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsAppMessenger y Oculus, eAmong others, it was renamed Meta. The movement served to illustrate the company’s turn by moving its bet on social networks to virtual reality, but also to try to silence the scandal caused by the revelations that exposed that the platform feeds hatred and hits the mental health of the minors.

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