The European Comission on Tuesday presented a plan to seize the initiative in the metaverseshared virtual worlds accessible through the Internet, and prevent large technological dominate a nascent field that could fuel economic growth.
The EU initiative comes at a time when Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, is working on products or services from the metaverse, raising fears the companies will gain an unfair advantage over smaller rivals.
The Community Executive affirms that its initiative aims to reflect the fundamental values and rights of the EU and create an open and interoperable metaverse, an area in which it calculates that the size of the world market will exceed 800,000 million euros in 2030, compared to 27,000 million last year.
The plan includes bringing together creators, media companies, and others to create an industry ecosystem, establishing regulatory environments to help companies test the metaverse, and launching skills development programs and virtual public services.
“We need to put people at the center and set it up in accordance with our EU digital rights and principles, to address risks related to privacy or privacy. disinformation”declared the vice-president of the Commission, Margrethe Vestager.
“We want to make sure that the web 4.0 becomes an open, secure, reliable, fair and inclusive digital environment for all”he added.
He stated last week that there are no plans to regulate the metaverse at this time, but that he expects the set of rules enacted in recent years, such as those relating to privacy, market power and the upcoming regulation on artificial intelligence, will be applied. to the new area.
Source: Reuters
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