Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is expected Thursday to offer 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.
The metaverse, he said earlier this week, would be a leading theme at the social-media giant’s annual developer forum called Facebook Connect, as he urged people to tune in to the online event, which is open to the public. Mr. Zuckerberg is scheduled for a keynote talk, to be followed by other speakers including John Carmack, consulting technology chief of the company’s Oculus virtual-reality business who is known for his past work on hit videogames such as “Doom” and “Quake.”
