Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger said last week that they’re leaving the photo sharing service, six years after it was bought by Facebook. On Monday, they named their successor. Adam Mosseri, who was head of product for Instagram and before that the head of Facebook’s news feed feature, has been named Instagram’s new chief. …
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In a vast, dark room, the lights glow a steady green, blue, yellow. I’m not inside the Matrix, but it’s not far off. With every step, I walk past thousands upon thousands of virtual interactions between real people happening through the world’s largest social network, Facebook. I’m inside the company’s newest European data center in Clonee, Ireland, a small town …
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I’ve gone on a lot of adventures in virtual reality, from staring down a Tyrannosaurus rex to scuba diving a shipwreck with a blue whale to sculpting neon colored statues in the air with a magic paint brush. But by far the most compelling experiences have been games, while piloting a spaceship in an epic dogfight or holding my ground …
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If price is keeping you from buying virtual reality gear, Mark Zuckerberg has a new headset for you. The Oculus Quest, a $399 VR headset that Facebook’s CEO unveiled Wednesday and that’s due out next spring (the company typically announces new prototypes months before they go on sale), is designed to address several nagging complaints early VR users have had about …
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Standalone VR is about to ramp up in a big way. Mark Zuckerberg, at the Oculus Connect keynote, announced on Wednesday that the Oculus Quest next-gen headset is coming next spring, for the aggressive price of $399. The headset, previously demoed as Project Santa Cruz, is a mobile device that adds full-room tracking and PC-like motion controls. The Oculus Quest …
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The fifth Oculus Connect developer conference is underway in San Jose, California this week. Besides being a place for VR developers to meet up and discuss the future of immersive technologies, Facebook — the owner of Oculus — laid out its next steps for where VR (and AR) will head. And yes, that includes new hardware: the $399 wireless Oculus …
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A year ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood on a stage and said he wants to get 1 billion people to try virtual reality. This year, he said he’s not even 1 percent there. “We have a saying at Facebook that the journey is 1 percent finished, and in this case not even quite,” he said at his company’s VR …
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Path will be no more. The mobile social network, a former competitor of Facebook, on Monday said it’ll be shutting down over the next two months. Starting Oct. 1, you won’t be able to download the app from the Apple App Store or the Google Play store. Path will shut its service on Oct. 18, then customer service will close …
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Access to high-speed internet is still a struggle in rural communities. Fifty-eight percent of rural Americans said it’s difficult to access fast internet in their communities, according to a blog post published by the Pew Research Center on Monday. Nearly a quarter (24 percent) of rural adults see this as a major problem, while 34 percent see it as a …
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You know that feeling when something is important to you but other people just don’t care? That’s how some congressional lawmakers felt this week after Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and, notably, no one from Google testified for a combined eight hours before two committees. The hearings were kind of important, given that they focused on hot-button …
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