Facebook CEO Zuckerberg shares VR vision: 'incredibly powerful'

Posted: Jun 17, 2021 / 04:43 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 17, 2021 / 04:43 PM EDT Appearing remotely from California in front of a Paris crowd on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision for the future of virtual and augmented reality. Virtual reality – computer generated 3D environments that can range from startlingly realistic to abstract wonderlands – has been on the cusp of wide acceptance for years without ever really taking off. Facebook was so wowed by early demonstrations of the Oculus Rift back in 2012 that it bought the company for $2 billion. It launched the $300 Oculus Quest 2 headset last October. Describing his vision for augmented reality, Zuckerberg says: “If I can’t make it to Paris, you’ll have a hologram Mark sitting on the couch next to you, or I’ll have hologram Maurice sitting on my couch here, in California. “And when I want to show you what the next version of Quest or the augmented reality glasses are that we’re working on, I’ll just be able to snap my fingers, and here’s a hologram version of it. And I can hand it to you, and you can touch it and you can…
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