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Mark Zuckerberg's VR Selfie Is a Bigger Deal Than You Realize

• Wired.com by Peter Rubin

Despite having bought Oculus for billions in 2014, the Facebook CEO was a surprise guest, and he kept his remarks short. "There's always a richer, more immersive medium to experience the world," he said. "And after video, the next logical step is fully immersive virtual reality."

Yesterday, Zuckerberg reprised his appearance at Oculus Connect. This time, though, the only thing that felt like last year was the gray t-shirt he wore. For starters, there were 2,500 developers in attendance, more than double last year's turnout. (The summit had relocated to San Jose, a relative stone's throw from Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters. Also, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was conspicuously absent in the aftermath of the recent scandal around his political trolling.) Then there's the fact that he spoke for more than 20 minutes, announcing everything from funding initiatives to Oculus' work on a self-contained wireless VR headset that would create a new "standalone" product category.


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