To say, yes, Facebook actively supports DenWiederaufbau in Puerto Rico. 1.5 million US dollars donated Unternehmenbereits to charities. In addition, WillFacebook engineers send to repair technical infrastructure on Caribbean island, which was badly hit by HurrikanMaria. Artificial intelligence is supposed to evaluate satellite imagery. It could be said: Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are doing more than US President Donald Trump, who, during a visit, threw affected "nice, soft cloths".
"Hold my Beer", Sugar Mountain must have thought of it. If president gets attention for tasteless actions, he can do that too. On Monday, Zuckerberg with of his colleague Rachel Rubin Franklin demonstrated app spaces, with which owners of VonVR glasses can enter virtual reality – toger with ir Facebook friends. For a few minutes, Zuckerberg and Franklin were put in A live stream Kurzerhandin a 3-D video from destroyed Puerto Rico.
"We're on a bridge," says Zuckerberg with a permanent grinning comic avatar, "It's all flooded. You bekommteinen good impression of destruction. " Only to immediately rave about how "magical" virtual reality is. While Imbackground flooded houses are to be seen, Zuckerberg undFranklin a virtual high five and laugh at fact that both during presentation are in quite different places. is to say: in or offices.
"It feels like really here in Puerto Rico," says Zuckerberg. You come here, yes Auchderzeit bad, so in real with hurricane and GanzenVerwüstung and such. "Really crazy to stand in middle of it," adds Franklin.
"Disaster tourism meets product performance"Really crazy. Luckily, re are now Facebook spaces, with which wealthy people from SonnigenSilicon Valley can beam into disaster areas. And best auchnoch with your friends. Free according to motto: Come, get smartphone out – we do a selfie with people who have whodo drinking water. Disaster Tourism 2.0.
The reactions not only fell among many spectators of livestreams ("Zuckerberg is a ruthless billionaire") Entsprechendnegativ. "The top of tasteless", titeltedas it-portal next Web. DieJournalisten of Mashable found "embarrassing", and those of Guardiannannten's a "callous mixture of catastrophe tourism and product presentation".
Now, of course, technique is not problem. On contrary, virtual reality can give people new insights into Orteund events, sometimes even more impressive than traditional and videos. When New York Times sends its readers to a 360-degree tour of refugee crisis or enters Guardianeinevirtuelle prison cell, this is quite impressively undzeigt, which can make virtual reality if glasses are cheaper and Improve image quality. Facebook's claim to advance this development and, at same time, to supplement VR with a social component, is refore understandable.
Date Of Update: 11 October 2017, 12:07
