Zuckerberg: ‘VR is going to be the most social platform’

“But we’re encouraged by our progress to date, and we’re excited to continue building VR technology that gives people new ways to connect and share”.

Speaking at MWC 2016, Zuckerberg said he sympathised with Apple over its refusal to bow to the Feds over encrypted iMessage chats. Additionally, “millions of people watch 360 videos on Facebook every day”, the company said, and more than 20,000 have been uploaded thus far.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, has reasserted his promises to get the entire planet online, after India blocked the social network’s Free Basics web service. So, it is a disappointment for the mission that they are trying to associate people and it is a big setback in India.

Facebook and Samsung have formed a partnership in order to provide Virtual Reality gadgets at affordable prices to customers.

Facebook is also bringing its streaming technology to the Gear 360 and Samsung Gear VR in the next few weeks.

Internet.org is an effort asking Facebook partners to package Facebook’s apps with others and “zero-rate” them, giving people access to those apps without incurring data fees.

Apple Inc. has won support from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in its stance of not to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation in unlocking the device obtained from Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the terrorists behind the San Bernardino shooting.

“I don’t think requiring backdoors with encryption is either going to be an effective way to increase security or is really the right thing to do for just the direction that the world is going to”, Zuckerberg said.

Many tech analysts have noted that the partnership between Samsung and Facebook will be beneficial not only to both companies, but also to the whole tech community, especially the fledgling virtual reality platform. As the networks get better and better that’s going to be more and more of what you share.

Zuckerberg made his entrance to the Samsung event in Barcelona by walking through a crowd of journalists all wearing the VR headsets. Facebook, Zuck says, has “a responsibility to help prevent terrorism”.