The year 2022 did not start much better for Meta than the year 2021, which did not improve the situation in 2020 (last year, when Facebook had 365 days), and we can go back a few years. However, The year 2021 had something different compared to previous yearsand that is a change of name from Facebook to Meta and, as the company told us, a change of focus in which Facebook ceased to be at the center, to a position where its great project will move for the next few years. , Metaverse.

We’ve talked about this virtual space on several occasions, so I won’t go into it in depth now. Yes, it is true at the moment shadows seem to weigh more than lightand that, at least in the short term, such an ambitious proposal is not feasible for many reasons, from the technical requirements to support the platform proposed by Meta to the technical difficulties posed by concepts such as digital assets (NFT) for use in various environments, such as in games.

Be that as it may, and if Meta’s commitment to Metaverse is firm and determined (and not a smokescreen covering his numerous scandals, an option we cannot rule out either), then we are in important moment for a more complete definition, in more detail about what society wants to do and therefore also about what the part of the community that is interested in participating in its development will have to do. And yes, at this point I’m talking mainly about developers.

Since the announcement of Metaverse by Meta, one of the most anticipated events of this year is part of the F8 development community, a conference organized by the company every year and focused mainly on this group. However, and as we can read in Yahoo! News, In the end, Meta will not organize the F8 event this year. Neither face to face, nor onlineaccording to the company, the meeting is postponed because it needs to move its transformation project in the face of the Metavers.

At first glance, this looks like an honest move on the part of Meta.: They still don’t have everything clear and prefer to move in this direction so that when the time comes to inform developers, they already have the necessary basis to do so in a more precise way and therefore be more useful to professionals. From this point of view, it seems like a pretty sensible decision.

However, and when we think about it, it is astonishing that a giant like Meta, announced a change in this importance without doing his homework and that now, almost six months later, it is still on the to-do list. Has Facebook really decided to halt its future in a technology platform it has not yet defined? It sounds surprising, really, and that after six months they’re still the same, it sounds even worse. So much so that it’s a little hard to accept.

Under these circumstances, we can only think of two things: that Meta is really late with its own project in the future, or that this decision is not really due to if not, try to keep your profile as low as possible this year, waiting for the waters to calm down and his name to cease to be associated with controversy, as has been the case for a long time. Of course, this could also be understood, but it is difficult to confess, although in this case the drug could have been worse than the disease.