Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, recently made the announcement that user-generated content tools will assist in bridging the gap between 2D gaming experiences on Facebook and Meta’s long-term ambition for the metaverse.

As described in works of fiction such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One, the metaverse is the universe of virtual worlds that are all connected to one another in some way. In October of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta and shifted the company’s focus to one focused on the metaverse. This move was motivated by the company’s investments in virtual reality.

During the summer of 2021, Meta completed the acquisition of Unity 2 Games, a firm based in the United Kingdom that produced a user-generated content tool known as Crayta. Crayta, which has been improved by Meta, will make its debut today as a cloud-streamed experience.

An additional important step that Zuckerberg is announcing is that Facebook Gaming will be increasing the number of countries in Western Europe in which its library of cloud games can be played. This is an important step because the same infrastructure will be essential in the future delivery of metaverse experiences across Meta’s various platforms.

As a part of Facebook Gaming’s commitment to making games more accessible to everyone, the business has added Crayta to its roster.

In 2020, Crayta will be available on Google Stadia, followed in 2021 by the Epic Games Store on PC, both of which will have thousands of user-created games and virtual worlds. A user-friendly toolkit is also available, making it possible for anybody to collaborate on the creation of new games and experiences from the ground up.

By joining Crayta developers in-game, Zuckerberg helped to construct Meta’s campus courtyard Hacker Square with micro games and amusement park attractions for the unveiling. In the midst of building, Zuckerberg sat down with game developers to talk about the future of the creator ecosystem, the rising role of game developers as world builders, the long-term goal for the metaverse, and more.

I “truly dig” the idea of designing a space or game “from within the space or game,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated.

DryCoast & Kay and Russ Dooley from Crayta’s development team helped Zuckerberg reimagine Meta’s Hacker Square in-game.

If you wanted something like this to run in a high-quality 3D environment, “that would be really hard to render in a browser or on phones, but being able to do it with cloud infrastructure and then send the data across the network after having already rendered it in the cloud is a pretty big advancement.”

Even as a child, Zuckerberg has been an avid gamer.

After getting a computer as a kid, I started playing games, then scripting them, before moving on to coding other things. This is how I got started building stuff.” By offering users more tools to create games, Zuckerberg says he is “enthusiastic.”

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “A lot of times today, people think about the metaverse as 3D experiences you can have in virtual and augmented reality, but I think what Crayta shows is that you can both build and enjoy these kind of experiences really easily on all kinds of 2D environments, including just within the Facebook App.”

Crayta’s “social universe and game-building environment” will be available on Facebook Gaming, he said. Even if you don’t have a powerful computer, our cloud-streaming technology makes it easy to build on both mobile and desktop platforms. While developing Meta’s renowned Hacker Square in Crayta, I met with a group of creative minds to discuss the future of gaming.

Meta has its detractors, of course. Meta’s Reality Labs metaverse division has been losing $3 billion a quarter. If you look at the company’s overall economics, Zuckerberg has plenty of time to experiment with the metaverse.

A headache-inducing headwind for others is CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s near-fanatical fixation with the Metaverse.” According to him, ‘The metaverse is the next chapter for the internet.’ It’s one thing for Zuckerberg to change the company’s credo; it’s quite another to change its revenue source,” said Charles Archer, IG’s financial reporter. Despite the fact that the CEO might be wasting this money, it might just as easily be a smart investment from an extremely successful businessman. More than $118 billion was earned by Meta in 2021, with profits of $29.4 billion. It has the financial wherewithal to devote $1 billion per month to the Metaverse. Reality Labs can be shut down at any time if the concept fails to take off. And Meta shares remain the world’s social media behemoth with a favorable price-to-earnings ratio of just 15.”