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[ad_1] In his annual virtual reality conference, Mark Zuckerberg focused on a device that hardly anyone will buy. As Mark Zuckerberg spoke to the camera in a pre-recorded presentation on Tuesday to kick off Meta Platforms Inc.'s annual virtual reality conference, he needed to address the elephant in the room: Enormous skepticism had grown around his vision for the metaverse.New users were finding his main Horizon platform buggy, and employees were getting antsy about the radical shift to virtual reality that Zuckerberg announced at this event one year ago. They needed a good reason to believe in his vision, but the Facebook co-founder didn't give them one. Instead, he doubled down on wowing people with cutting-edge tech, unveiling an expensive, high-end headset that hardly anyone will...

[ad_1] You’re floating without legs and you don’t know what time it is. Take notes on your laptop at your own risk. Meta Platforms Inc. has made it clear that it wants to infiltrate the business world with virtual reality technology. So I tested the premise on Tuesday morning, joining the company's Connect developer conference via an Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset. The conference was hosted in the company's Horizon Worlds app, which the company said will soon be stuffed with basic corporate productivity offerings from Microsoft, Adobe, Accenture and Zoom. Digital avatars that look like cartoon versions of us, except legless (more on that later), will have access to PDFs, Word documents, breakout rooms and whiteboard meetings. It's going to be an adjustment, and take more ...

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