{"id":4650,"date":"2022-08-02T04:51:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:27:58","slug":"facebook-wont-get-what-it-wants-on-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/facebook-wont-get-what-it-wants-on-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin: Facebook Won&#8217;t Get What it Wants on Metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ethereum Co-Founder, Vitalik Buterin, has expressed skepticism regarding current corporate endeavors to create metaverses, asserting that he doubts the success of these efforts, including those of Meta.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to a post by Dialectic Co-Founder Dean Eigenmann, who suggested that venture capitalists might be mistaken about the ideal form of a metaverse, Buterin shared his belief that the metaverse will manifest itself organically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he voiced doubt that the ongoing initiatives by companies like Meta, led by <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/tag\/mark-zuckerberg\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"160\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, will achieve the desired outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vitalik-Buterin-metaverse-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Vitalik Buterin: Facebook Won't Get What it Wants on Metaverse\" class=\"wp-image-9873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vitalik-Buterin-metaverse-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vitalik-Buterin-metaverse-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vitalik-Buterin-metaverse-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vitalik-Buterin-metaverse-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vitalik-Buterin-metaverse.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The &quot;metaverse&quot; is going to happen but I don&#39;t think any of the existing corporate attempts to intentionally create the metaverse are going anywhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tVUfq4CWmP\">https:\/\/t.co\/tVUfq4CWmP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1553526863783657472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 30, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept of the metaverse is often described as an interactive 3D online world centered around social connections, frequently incorporating technologies like augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/web-stories\/founder-of-ethereum-vitalik-buterin\/\" data-type=\"web-story\" data-id=\"9818\">Vitalik Buterin<\/a><\/em><\/strong>&#8216;s pessimistic remarks, several successful metaverse projects, utilizing blockchain technology, such as<strong> Decentraland<\/strong> and <strong>The Sandbox<\/strong>, have been launched. However, Buterin remains skeptical about Meta&#8217;s attempt to create a metaverse, asserting that its current form is unlikely to be successful as the definition and user cases of the metaverse remain unclear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The definition of &#8216;metaverse&#8217; is still unknown; it&#8217;s too early to discern people&#8217;s preferences. Therefore, anything Facebook endeavors to create may not materialize.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meta has introduced various AR and VR applications, including Meta Horizons Workroom, a VR space for collaborative discussions among colleagues. The company has also developed first-generation smart glasses, enabling users to connect to the metaverse by recording audio and video and navigating virtual worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Danger-That-Comes-With-the-Metaverse-1-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Danger-That-Comes-With-the-Metaverse-1-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Danger-That-Comes-With-the-Metaverse-1-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Danger-That-Comes-With-the-Metaverse-1-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Danger-That-Comes-With-the-Metaverse-1-390x220.webp 390w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Danger-That-Comes-With-the-Metaverse-1-150x84.webp 150w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Danger-That-Comes-With-the-Metaverse-1.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My critique is deeper than &quot;Metaverse Wikipedia will beat Metaverse Encyclopedia Britannica&quot;. It&#39;s that we don&#39;t really know the definition of &quot;the metaverse&quot; yet, it&#39;s far too early to know what people actually want. So anything Facebook creates now will misfire.<\/p>&mdash; vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1553541915026812928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 31, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics argue that the centralized metaverses developed by companies like Meta and Microsoft could impact the decentralized ownership of products and services within these virtual realms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to this concern, metaverse developers such as Decentraland and The Sandbox have collaboratively joined forces with other Web3 projects to establish the Open Metaverse Association (OMA3). This association is dedicated to fostering more transparent, inclusive, decentralized, and democratic metaverses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF) is also committed to advancing these principles by working towards the creation of standards that promote openness and interoperability in virtual worlds. Notably, among the 35 technology companies affiliated with MSF, major players such as Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alibaba, Unity, and Sony are actively participating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You may also like this content<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum Co-Founder, Vitalik Buterin, has expressed skepticism regarding current corporate endeavors to create metaverses, asserting that he doubts the success of these efforts, including those of Meta. Responding to a post by Dialectic Co-Founder Dean Eigenmann, who suggested that venture capitalists might be mistaken about the ideal form of a metaverse, Buterin shared his belief &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[74,318],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metaverse1","tag-meta-news-and-content","tag-metaverse-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}