The next iteration of the Internet will involve heavy use of augmented and virtual reality for gaming, entertainment, socializing, and work. The metaverse, as it is called, is created by Mark Zuckerberg’s company Meta, formerly Facebook.
Grayscale, a cryptocurrency asset manager, estimated for Business Insider that the metaverse could represent a $1 trillion annual revenue opportunity between ads, digital assets, and events. Likewise, he stressed that it can be a great place to find work.
In October, Meta announced plans to hire 10,000 people to help build the metaverse in technical fields like engineering, design, and product management.
Facebook is requesting employees for this process. Positions include a hardware product manager who helps create new devices like augmented reality smart glasses and other wearable devices, and a director of technical program management who “drives the development” of worlds, content and avatars of the metaverse.
Andy Wilkinson, Facebook’s recruiting director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, recently told Business Insider that the company considers the metaverse as “the next version of the internet”.
For its part, Microsoft also has a job opening for a senior program director for its Mesh virtual reality platform.
Roblox, the wildly popular game and virtual world creation platform, is even deeper into the metaverse, adding this term to the 258 open positions for the company. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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