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The announcement, made during the company's annual hardware event that typically focuses on virtual products, like Portal video devices, and the Oculus headsets. But on Thursday, Zuckerberg had something else in mind. "Meta" comes from the Greek word for beyond, and the Big Tech CEO described this name as apt as the company moves its attention to place virtual and augmented reality in a central position. The Connect event also saw Zuckerberg and his Facebook colleagues list extensive plans for something the firm is calling a connected "people-first" internet, capable of moving the focus away from social media in the conventional sense, and onward to more novel media that employ AR and VR.
We can already connect with one another via modern social media platforms, but the demos during Thursday's Connect event hinted at a future where seamless connectivity between Oculus VR devices and the Messenger app work like never before. As of writing, none of Facebook's apps, including Instagram and Messenger, have changed their names, or shown any public-facing sign of the colossal pivot for the brand. But we'll update as soon as these changes begin to show.
In the meantime, there's much to discuss about Zuckerberg's Facebook, and its imminent pivot. Facebook is known throughout the world, which means this decision wasn't made lightly. But, in the wake of repeated privacy scandals, the longest website outage in a decade, and Facebook's aims to move further into VR and AR applications, it's not as bizarre as it seems. In changing its name, Meta can march directly into VR and AR technology without appearing like it's two distinct companies. And Facebook itself definitely had this issue in mind when debating on the ultimate decision of doing a brand pivot of this scale and magnitude.
Facebook (or, Meta) has shown no plans to ditch its two social media websites, or its messaging services, or its augmented reality firm, Facebook Reality Labs. And it probably won't since these services — especially the social media websites and messenger services — have become a core feature of digital architecture on the modern web, for better or worse.