Meta’s Experimenting With ‘Avatar Quests’ as It Builds Towards the Metaverse

As Meta works to make avatars a central element of its next-level experiences, it’ll also need to bring users along, by providing more ways for people to use their avatars in different applications.As you can see in this example, posted by app researcher Radu Oncescu, Meta’s working on “Avatar Quests”, which would seemingly enable users to engage in interactive games or world exploration via their digital depiction.Which also sounds similar to its broader vision for the metaverse, its longer term, next-level social media experience that it’s still developing in the background.Meta probably went a little too hard on its metaverse push back in 2021, when it renamed the company in line with this vision, and promised new worlds and experiences based around avatar interaction.

failed to live up to its futuristic vision

That may well be coming, but even then, Meta flagged that such development would be a decade out, at the least. Which meant that its metaverse shift was largely criticized and lambasted, as Meta’s current VR experiences, in particular, failed to live up to its futuristic vision.Meta has since switched focus to the more trendy AI, and building out its own AI-based offerings, which will also, eventually, build into its broader vision. So it’s all one and the same in Meta’s view, though it’s no longer promoting the metaverse in such grandiose terms.But a key element, again, will be avatar interaction, and enabling people to engage in its evolving spaces via their digital characters. Which is why Meta’s developing better, more customizable avatars, and adding new ways to use them in games and other experiences.