Meta Publicizes New Options and Insights for Worldwide Ladies’s Day

Meta has announced a variety of latest options, whereas it’s additionally hosted a brand new, metaverse-aligned dialogue, as a part of its Worldwide Ladies’s Day occasions.

How can girls assist form the metaverse, and what is going to the way forward for connection imply for feminine customers?

Meta’s Chief Range Officer Maxine Williams hosted a discussion on exactly this, with a variety of 5 feminine VR creators becoming a member of the chat in Horizon Workrooms.

It’s an fascinating dialogue on the subsequent stage of digital connection, whereas additionally offering a preview of how metaverse/VR conferences will be held, and the way the avatar element can convey extra expression and connection to such occasions.

Along with this, Meta’s additionally launched a brand new take a look at of nonprofit fundraisers inside Reels on Fb and Instagram, as a part of a brand new push to assist help charities by means of the TikTok-like function.

Meta’s additionally launched a brand new sequence of VR programming throughout Horizon Venues and Oculus TV to spotlight the historic contributions girls have made, and proceed to make, whereas Instagram’s trying to spotlight various girls creators through a brand new sequence of posts within the app.

Meta’s additionally including new customized avatar stickers and profile frames to mark the occasion, whereas it’s additionally hosting a range of female-led content in VR, together with concert events by Charli XCX and Billie Eilish in Horizon Venues and new documentary sequence’. 

Meta’s additionally introduced a new set of features on Messenger and Messenger Kids, and together, there’s a variety of the way to take part in Ladies’s Day, and Ladies’s Historical past Month throughout its apps.

And it’s significantly fascinating to think about the metaverse factor right here, and the way the metaverse, and VR connection, may really facilitate extra alternative for feminine creators.

Although it does stay fascinating to me that Meta’s ‘metaverse’ imaginative and prescient is actually simply VR, and that it’s primarily re-angling the broader dialog across the subsequent stage of digital connection round its long-standing VR tasks.

Now, it hardly refers to VR in any respect, it’s all ‘the metaverse’, which Meta is utilizing as an umbrella time period for all new tech developments, which is able to assist to determine it as the important thing host of the subsequent stage.

The extra we glance to attach within the metaverse, the extra we glance to hook up with Meta, with the broader narrative now working in favor of its evolving instruments.