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Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for a future in which everyone participates in the so-called metaverse goes through a kind of WhatsApp in 3D, where people could talk to contacts as if they were puppets inserted in a virtual environment. Who admits the possibility is Andrew Buzworth, the current vice president of the laboratory of the Facebook that develops virtual reality.
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The executive spoke with journalists from Latin America this afternoon. This columnist was the only representative of Brazil, a country with 150 million supporters of the messaging app, according to a very well-informed source.
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Concept of how a person inside the metaverse would receive a video call — Photo: Reproduction/Meta
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With the word, the Meta boss
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Buz, as he is known, was asked if there would be integration with WhatsApp. He gave the long answer you see below:
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“We are very excited to bring WhatsApp to the metaverse. The app serves as the communications backbone for many countries around the world. Obviously you can think of ways to use it [dentro do metaverso].
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It is part of the social fabric of many people’s everyday lives. It would be naive of me to think that a user would put VR glasses on his head and, when receiving a message via WhatsApp, he would have to remove this giant screen to check the information on a different screen, the smartphone.
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User outside the metaverse would see contact in the 3D version — Photo: Reproduction/Meta
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We announced the virtual reality version of Messenger yesterday. It’s a little harder to bring WhatsApp into this universe because the app is tied to your phone number. We will need some extra work to achieve this result. The WhatsApp team is very excited to be working with us on this. They recently started to support multiple devices that can connect to the same account in the app.
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We are going to expand that reality. I don’t have any announcements to make today, but I’m definitely interested in bringing WhatsApp to the metaverse.”
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For those who have not yet connected one thing to the other, metaverse is the name given to the project of recreate the real world inside the internet, thanks to 3D spaces where avatars interact with each other. It would be possible to hold meetings, teach classes, play games or simply spend time together. Zuckerberg bets so strongly on this future that he decided rename Facebook’s parent company to Meta, in reference to this type of virtual reality.
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Facebook changes its name and becomes ‘Meta’ — Photo: Reproduction/Facebook
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The subject has made headlines in recent weeks because of the numerous challenges that arise, including access to devices compatible with viewing and interacting with content in virtual reality, the telecommunications infrastructure and Facebook’s well-known problems in managing speech from hateful or offensive content, among other cases.
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On the other hand, the idea of recreating a virtual world where people can replicate their appearance or adopt completely new characters is being explored by several teams and companies around the world. In addition to the Meta company itself (ex-Facebook), the work of the Microsoft, do Roblox, gives Epic Games and the Brazilian Movile this evening.
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