Zuckerberg to press on with Internet access despite setback

VR reality is integral to the Facebook experience of the future, with the company’s early tests around 360 degree videos already generating more than one million views each day.

“The important thing for me is always to preserve fairness as you know we were not part of the Facebook experiment…”

Facebook wants to make VR experiences something you do with other people, USA Today reports. “A lot of people think that companies don’t care about anything other than making money”, Mr. Zuckerberg added.

Facebook remains committed to spreading the availability of the Internet in India, despite the recent prohibition of its free Web service by the Indian government, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday.

Facebook, which bought virtual reality firm Oculus for two billion United States dollars in 2014, has since partnered with Samsung to create the Gear VR headset, which can be bought for less than £100 and works by slotting a Samsung Galaxy smartphone into it to use as a screen. The models that worked in one country are different in another.

But while listing the various ways Facebook was prepared to help network operators contend with spiralling consumer appetites for data, he also criticised and made more demands on the industry.

While Facebook’s billionaire founder acknowledged that “there might be tension in any relationship” he sees the interaction between telecommunications networks and messaging platforms as complementary.

To this end, the company has assembled a VR team that will focus on building social apps that can be experienced using Samsung’s $99 Gear VR headset.

He described the 5G network as “faster connections for richer people”. “What I think will happen – and sooner than we think – is the ability to share whole scenes, not just a flat picture, so that people who aren’t there can feel like they’re really in that place”. Over the next few years this will continue, before the next big trend, which he predicts will be virtual reality, becomes a better way for people “to express the things that they care about”.

In his efforts to make internet a basic commodity and to make it available to all the people across the globe, Mark announced his plan to improve the network infrastructure.