The Metaverse group, which includes Facebook, and French digital careers training school Simplon announced in a joint statement released today that they will launch the “Metaverse Academy” in France at the beginning of the 2022 academic year.

The Metaverse, seen by digital giants as a quantum leap for the development of the Internet, is an immersive digital world that should be an extension of physical reality through augmented or virtual reality and make three- dimensional the web from two-dimensional. . dimensional.

Meta’s Vice President for Southern Europe, Laurent Soleil, confirmed that the school will be described as “free, regional and innovative” and will focus on “job opportunities”, noting that its goal is to train more -about one hundred students in two related professions. in Metaverse, and they are an expert immersive technology developer and specialist in assistive and assistive technology.

“We are looking for people of all nationalities and our goal is to have 30 percent women in first use,” Sally added.

The co-founder and president of Simplon said that “education itself will not be based on the use of Metaverse, as this aspect is still relatively vague. We will only be interested in 3D technologies and in the interaction of both worlds. Education is there.

Both partners stressed that “80% of jobs in 2030 have not yet been invented. So it must start now ”to meet the future needs of companies looking for skills and professions related to“ Metaverse ”.

The Metaverse Academy, based in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Nice, aims to educate 20 students in each city and each group with a focus on the diversity and status of women.

In October 2021, Meta announced its intention to take ten thousand people from the EU over the next five years to build the Metaverse digital world, which has become a new strategic priority for the American group.