Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday offered a more detailed vision of the metaverse, an online virtual realm where people would work, play and shop that he sees as key to the company attracting younger users.
“We’ve gone from desktop to web to phones from text to photos to video, but this isn’t the end of the line,” Mr. Zuckerberg said at the social-media giant’s annual developer forum called Facebook Connect. “The next platform and medium will be even more immersive and embodied Internet where you’re in the experience, not just looking at it, and we call this the metaverse.”