Meta is launching a metaverse for education to complement its VR business products and services.
Meta is bringing its enterprise level Quest services to the education sector, the social media giant announced on April 15.“by far the most popular extended reality headsets on the market” according to Statista. The sector is expected to reach an installed user base of more than 34 million units by the end of 2024.
If that prediction remains true, the VR sector will have demonstrated a compound annual growth rate of approximately 27.3% since 2020 when, according to Statista, the installed VR user base was about 14.2 million. In order to maintain its pole position, Meta recently unveiled a slew of products and services aimed at the enterprise metaverse market. As Cointelegraph recently reported, the pivot showedPer a blog post from Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg:
"Later this year Meta will be launching a new product offering for Quest devices dedicated to education. … It will allow teachers, trainers and administrators to access a range of education-specific apps and features and make it possible for them to manage multiple Quest devices at once, without the need for each device in a classroom or training environment to be updated and prepared individually.
The new product’s name and details are to be revealed “in the coming months” with a full launch anticipated by the end of 2024.
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