Facebook won’t hold its F8 developer conference this year after pivoting to Meta

Meta received’t be holding its F8 developer convention in 2022, the corporate introduced Wednesday.

“Just like years previous, we’re taking a quick break in programming and won’t maintain F8 in 2022 whereas we gear up on new initiatives which are all tailor-made in the direction of the following chapter of the web, and the following chapter of our firm too: constructing the metaverse,” Meta’s Diego Duarte Moreira mentioned in a weblog publish. “Just like the early phases of the online, constructing the metaverse might be a collaborative effort at each stage — with different firms, creators and builders such as you.”

In lieu of F8, Moreira pointed to Meta’s “inaugural enterprise messaging occasion,” dubbed Conversations, which is able to happen on Could nineteenth. Moreira additionally mentioned there might be one other Join occasion “later this 12 months” targeted on the corporate’s “VR, AR, and metaverse platform choices.” On the October 2021 Join, Fb introduced its rebrand to Meta, so it appears doubtless the corporate may have some massive information to share at that occasion.

Different massive tech conferences are transferring ahead within the coming months. Google I/O will happen Could eleventh and twelfth, whereas Apple simply introduced on Tuesday that the 2022 Worldwide Builders Convention is about for June sixth by way of tenth. Each might be totally obtainable on-line. And IFA 2022 is about to be an in-person occasion that’s scheduled to happen in-person in early September.