Zuckerberg promised that the technology would “enable you to experience the impossible.” In 2014, it paid $2 billion to buy the headset start-up Oculus VR. (My avatar had a checkered red flannel shirt.) Since Workrooms show participants only as floating torsos seated around a wooden desk, no one worried about picking out a pair of pants.įacebook was early to virtual reality. Zuckerberg’s avatar sported a long-sleeve henley shirt in a dark Facebook blue. Zuckerberg and roughly a dozen Facebook employees, reporters and technical support staff assembled in what looked like an open and well-lit virtual conference room. “One way or another, I think we’re going to live in a mixed-reality future,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, said at a media round table that was conducted this week in virtual reality using Workrooms.Īt the event, the avatars of Mr.
The product is another step toward what Facebook sees as the ultimate form of social connection for its 3.5 billion users.
