According to a joint announcement made by the two companies on Sunday, Facebook’s parent company Meta and a French digital training company will collaborate to establish a “metaverse academy” in France for the upcoming school year.
The term “metaverse” refers to an immersive digital world that is working toward the goal of recreating real life through the use of augmented or virtual reality and transforming the web from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional format. This technological advancement is widely regarded as the next big thing for the internet.
According to Meta’s vice president for southern Europe Laurent Solly, the school’s first year objective is to train roughly one hundred students in two jobs for free: professional immersive technology developers and support and help technicians.
According to Frederic Bardeau, co-founder and CEO of Simplon, a French company collaborating with Meta, the teaching style would be in-person and revolve on projects, with a focus on the 3D world and interactions in the virtual universes. This was revealed by Frederic Bardeau.
A total of one hundred and twenty students will be educated each year at the Metaverse Academy, which has campuses in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Nice, in addition to the capital city of France
The concept of diversity will be given special consideration. While Solly stated that the goal was to have women make up thirty percent of the first cohort, Bardeau stated that he would not examine at the applicants’ CVs and would not promote any form of positive discrimination.
In October 2021, Meta announced its plans to establish the metaverse, the new strategic goal of the US technology behemoth, which would result in the creation of 10,000 new employment in Europe over the next five years.
The objective is connected to forecasts that the job skills that will be in demand in the future will have a close relationship with the metaverse.
According to Meta and Simplon, eighty percent of the professions that will be available in 2030 have not been conceived of yet, which highlights the importance of developing training programs right now.
For MetaNews.