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ZUCKERBERG SHOWS VR EMPATHY BY VISITING 🇵🇷 PUERTO RICO


Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has visited Puerto Rico in virtual reality. The timing of his virtual visit isn't entirely altruistic: Facebook's VR conference, Oculus Connect 4, kicks off on Wednesday US time. Zuck's video includes him saying he will “announce some stuff I am not going to announce now” at the conference.

To tease us all about those announcements and the general awesomeness of VR, the video saw Zuck and Facebook VR supremo Rachel Rubin visit the hurricane-battered island. Zuckerberg showed a cartoon avatar of himself imposed on a 360-degree video captured by NPR. He said the video lets you “get a sense of some damage here that the hurricanes have done”.

Facebook has also made other contributions to the crisis. Zuckerberg said the company has donated US$1.5m to the relief effort, activated the Safety Check feature that lets people inform their loved ones they're safe and sent people to the island to help restore internet services so that citizens and emergency responders alike can enjoy internet access.

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