Rebranding as Meta, Facebook emphasizes VR future over crisis-beset present
by Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times
Oct 28, 2021
3 minutes
In a move that signals the company's growing focus on augmented and virtual reality projects, Facebook — which owns the photo sharing app Instagram, the virtual reality company Oculus and the messaging platforms Messenger and WhatsApp, as well as its namesake social network — will now be known as Meta.
The new name is a nod to the idea of the "metaverse," a concept trendy in Silicon Valley that encompasses a mix of physical, virtual
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