Meta nonetheless is not eager on reviving its F8 convention, however this time it is not because of the pandemic. The Facebook mum or dad agency revealed that it “will not hold” F8 in 2022 because it retools for “building the metaverse.” Instead, Meta will lean on Conversations (its first enterprise messaging occasion), Connect and different developer displays all through the remainder of the 12 months.

The firm hasn’t held a reside F8 since 2019. Both F8 2020 and 2021 have been online-only as a consequence of COVID-19. This is not the primary time Meta skipped F8 altogether, although. It did not maintain conferences in 2009, 2012 and 2013.

A transfer like this is not stunning. Facebook solely rebranded itself as Meta in October, and the corporate continues to be within the early days of defining its metaverse imaginative and prescient and creating related instruments. The F8 2022 no-show may give Meta extra time to current a clearer technique, to not point out create extra augmented actuality and digital actuality expertise it may pitch to creators.