“Facebook is now Meta,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said as he announced the rebranding the social media giant during a live stream on Thursday.

“We’ve learned a lot from struggling with social issues and living under closed platforms, and now it is time to take everything that we’ve learned and help build the next chapter,” Zuckerberg said.

However, Zuckerberg asserted that “our apps and their brands, they are not changing”.

Facebook founder Zuckerberg spoke about the social media giant’s vision for the metaverse in a keynote livestream event.

“Metaverse will have richer ways to connect,” Zuckerberg said during the live video link as he described the metaverse virtual concept as a way to “connect with people”.

He informed how “gaming” will change in the metaverse with a more “immersive experience”.

“The last few years have been humbling for me and our company in a lot of ways,” the Facebook chief conceded as he introduced “a social version of home” where users can “jump into apps” with other avatars.

“Work from anywhere” as a concept was high on the metaverse horizon, Zuckerberg explained. He said access to jobs for people will a “gamechanger”.

“Metaverse is the next frontier,” Zuckerberg said.

(With inputs from Agencies)