The American technological Meta, the matrix of Facebookannounced this Wednesday an investment of 2.5 million dollars to support academic research in European countries about the risks and opportunities of metaversea program that in Spain will materialize through a collaboration with the University of Alicante.
Meta, as explained in a statement, will support the creation of the Meta Chair for the Responsible Development of the Metaverse in Alicante in order to assess whether the existing legal framework guarantees the adequate protection of people in this virtual world.
In addition, it will seek to analyze the legal certainty “that digital entrepreneurs need to expand their activities in this new medium”.
“For this dream to come true, we have to ensure that people are adequately protected in their relationships in the metaverse, both at the user and business level. To achieve this, one would have to review and/or create new legal bodies”, pointed out in the note Aurelio López-Tarruella, professor of private international law at the University of Alicante.
According to López-Tarruella, this is a “difficult endeavor, since the metaverse is a completely new medium in which social and economic relations would be different from those that occur in the real world, websites, mobile applications, etc. e-commerce platforms or social networks”.
The director of Public Affairs of Meta for Spain and Portugal, José Luis Zimmerman, highlighted the importance of this type of alliances to be able to study relevant questions about the construction of these new technologies when they are still in their early stages.
“We want to make sure that the enthusiasm for the metaverse and its potential development is accompanied by a rigorous approach that allows it to be developed in a collaborative and responsible way”, he added.
In addition to Spain, the investment announced this Wednesday by Meta will support the work of academics in six other European countries.
the metaverse, a virtual world that users can access using augmented reality devicesis the current great bet of the company formerly known as Facebook, which for this reason changed its name to Meta in 2021.
Until now, however, the company led by Mark Zuckerberg has failed to meet its ambitious expectations in this area and, along the way, has seen its accounts falter and its shares fall sharply on Wall Street, where they have been left behind. more than 66% so far this year. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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