Meta is introducing a new way for people to log in to virtual reality headsets without using their Facebook credentials, the company’s latest effort to separate its futuristic metaverse ambitions from its core social media business. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the company now known as Meta, announced in a Facebook post on Thursday that Meta accounts will debut in August. Users will be able to access their Meta Quest VR headsets with their new accounts and to see a history of their VR app purchases.
While Meta still gets substantially all of its revenue from its Facebook family of apps, Zuckerberg is trying to convince investors and a certain subset of customers that the business is headed in a different direction as the metaverse evolves. Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse involves an assortment of virtual worlds that can be accessed by VR and augmented reality technologies. Although VR and AR headsets are still niche devices in a world dominated by smartphones, the Facebook founder has indicated they represent the future of computing and he recently said he envisions 1 billion users spending hundreds of dollars each in the metaverse by the second half of the decade.
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This article is written by Jonathan Vanian
