Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg loves the idea of a digitally-enhanced, alternative reality so much that he rebrnaded his multibillion-dollar social media company as "Meta." The 2021 change marked a fundamental strategic shift in what Zuckerberg called the "next frontier in connecting people," which will be "just like social networking was when we got started." Yesterday, the vision took a big step to reality.

At a presentation at his company's annual Meta Connect conference, Zuckerberg release an array of products intended to give the tech giant a dominant position in the field of augmented and virtual reality, with the metaverse at their core.