Meta will launch Metaverse Academy for students. A digital training company in France will help set it up. News ET Telecom.
Metaverse introduces a digital world as part of one of the technological developments in the Internet world. Where augmented or virtual reality will create real life environment and atmosphere and the web will be converted from 2D to 3D.
In a statement, Laurent Sully, vice president of Meta South Europe, said the educational institutions working with the academy would provide free training to 100 students in the Emerging Technology Developer Specialist and Support and Assistance Technician categories in the first year.
Frederick Bardou, co-founder and chief executive of Simplon, a French company that works with Meta, said the students would be given direct training. Priority will be given to projects related to virtual and 3D world. “In the first phase, our goal was to train 30 percent of the women,” Sally said. Bardou, however, said he would not look at the applicants’ CVs and there was no room for discrimination.
Meta will create 10,000 jobs in Europe over the next five years as Metaverse builds.