The Facebook founder spoke about the company’s AR and VR developments, saying his research in space – Facebook Reality Labs – is about delivering presence without physical travel.
Zuckerberg said, according to the venture capitalist Josh Constine, that the main challenge of these technologies is that they require a format expected by users, such as thick-rimmed glasses. The challenge is to make the technology small enough to fit this body.
Facebook apparently has a roadmap for the development of VR and AR technologies – which should take four to five years – and that such technology can be used in remote work environments.
Speaking of the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Zuckerberg said the blockages revealed that there is no reason for employers to link employee recruitment to physical locations and offices – raising the hypothesis that VR and RA could unlock people’s ability. to live where they want while they are ‘present’ where they need to be.
Other benefits include more productive workers, added the CEO, and reduced carbon emissions. “We should teleport, not transport,” concluded Zuckerberg.
Andrew Bosworth tweeted that the company is “overloading remote work and productivity”, creating a mixed reality environment.
In the tweet, Mr. Bosworth shows floating screens that can be moved and resized using gesture control, as well as the user typing on a keyboard with a virtual taskbar on it for shortcuts, including the Windows icon and Facebook .
Zuckerberg predicts that half of his workforce is likely to work remotely in the next decade.
“We need to do this in a careful and responsible way, so let’s do it in a measured way,” he said.
“But I think it’s possible that in the next five to 10 years – maybe closer to 10 than five, but somewhere in that range – I think we could make about half of the company work remotely.”
“Write messages however you want, whether typing them in VR, selecting a pre-written conversation starter or using our voice to text feature,” said Facebook.