Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered remarks throughout his firm’s quarterly earnings name reaffirming his dedication to “the metaverse imaginative and prescient”.

He posted the feedback to Fb and we have excerpted the related section under:

A story has developed that we’re someway shifting away from specializing in the metaverse imaginative and prescient, so I simply need to say upfront that is not correct. We have been specializing in each AI and the metaverse for years now, and we are going to proceed to deal with each.

The 2 areas are additionally associated. A breakthrough in pc imaginative and prescient was what enabled us to ship the primary standalone VR gadget. Combined actuality is constructed on a stack of AI applied sciences for understanding the bodily world and mixing it with digital objects. Having the ability to procedurally generate worlds will probably be vital for delivering compelling experiences at scale. And our imaginative and prescient for AR glasses includes an AI-centric working system that we predict would be the foundation for the following era of computing. Metaverse applied sciences will even assist to ship AI as properly. For instance, embodying AI brokers will benefit from the deep funding we have made in avatars during the last a number of years.

Constructing the metaverse is a long run venture, however the rationale for it stays the identical and we stay dedicated to it.

Within the close to time period, we have reached just a few milestones that I feel are price calling out. Greater than a billion Meta avatars have now been created. Since final 12 months, the variety of titles within the Quest retailer with at the very least $25 million in income has doubled. Greater than half of Quest each day actives now spend greater than an hour utilizing their gadget.

The subsequent milestone is that we’re gearing as much as launch our subsequent era client digital and combined actuality gadget later this 12 months. We launched Quest 2 nearly three years in the past at this level. It was a really massive step ahead for VR, and I am actually excited to indicate the world all of the enhancements and new expertise we have developed since then at a worth level that will probably be accessible for many folks.