• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse is “open” and “interoperable.”
• In an effort to get there, Facebook will team up with Microsoft for work tools and games.
• Facebook executives admitted YouTube’s popularity among the apps for their Quest headsets.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg needs his expensive bet on the metaverse to work, and now he’s talking and partnering with rival companies to back up that outcome.

This year’s Facebook Connect annual developer conference once again focused on the metaverse. To put the metaverse in the hands of more people, Facebook revealed new partnerships Tuesday with other big names in…