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Mark Zuckerberg 'tours' flooded Puerto Rico in bizarre virtual reality promo

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Planx

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boiled goose said:
Zucker would be a massive upgrade.
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At least Trump is incompetent to the point where a lot of evil stuff can't be done. A Zuck presidency would have me afraid that half of the poor, old and sick would be turned into food for the other half within 2 years.
 
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excelsiorlef

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Mark Zuckerberg would like to invite you to his
mothership
... domicile so that you and he may break a gluten based flower and water substance and fill up on the daily requirement of essential nutrients together.
 
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Raylan Targaryen

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ClosingADoor said:
Disaster tourism without actually having to go there. I don't see the point. If you don't know shit is messed up from photos and video, a VR experience will not add anything here.
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Not that you don’t know how messed up it is, but the severity I guess? Idk the right term to explain what I’m trying to say but I saw all the pictures of hurricane destruction before Sandy, but when Sandy hit me and I didn’t have a home for 5 months it really set in. That’s when I understood how bad something like Katrina was, because in comparison Sandy was like a regular rainy day.

So maybe you know PR is in bad shape but until you see it yourself, you might not know just how bad
 
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therealist

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What's the problem with this? This is no different from looking at videos and pictures of the damage, and it's actually better.

It seems everything Mark does gets hated on here
 
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Alcotholic

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Killthee said:
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Did he just eat plain whole wheat toast?
 
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Pandy

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I'd seen pictures from this and thought it was out of context, but reading that description... Yikes.

If it had just been reversed. Starting with the silliest stuff, then ending on Puerto Rico to show how the technology can be used to help professionals remotely assess disaster areas, followed by an announcement of further support and a link to or appeal for public donations, then I think it would have played pretty well. No?

No high-fiving though. Obviously.
 
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Vyse The Legend

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therealist said:
What's the problem with this? This is no different from looking at videos and pictures of the damage, and it's actually better.

It seems everything Mark does gets hated on here
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It's tone deaf as fuck. Puerto Rico is not even remotely out of the woods yet -- in fact, things are likely to get worse. Yet, Zuck's promoting VR disaster tourism? It's exploitative.

Pandy said:
I'd seen pictures from this and thought it was out of context, but reading that description... Yikes.

If it had just been reversed. Starting with the silliest stuff, then ending on Puerto Rico to show how the technology can be used to help professionals remotely assess disaster areas, followed by an announcement of further support and a link to or appeal for public donations, then I think it would have played pretty well. No?

No high-fiving though. Obviously.
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Yes, this would've been the best way to handle this demo. The ONLY way.
 
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Occam

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Look forward to mandatory brain implants to record your thoughts and broadcast commercials directly into your brain under President Zuckerberg.
 
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ClosingADoor

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therealist said:
What's the problem with this? This is no different from looking at videos and pictures of the damage, and it's actually better.

It seems everything Mark does gets hated on here
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Billionaire high-fiving someone while taking a virtual tour through a disaster area. It shows a complete lack of compassion.
 
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Violet_0

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God Dayumm said:
Not any different than the people taking selfies after the Las Vegas shooting.

He really understands his audience. This is gonna be huge, imagine all those selfie-taking narcissists now able to insert themselves into any event and place of importance to get the attention and validation they so much crave.
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boiled goose

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Planx said:
At least Trump is incompetent to the point where a lot of evil stuff can't be done. A Zuck presidency would have me afraid that half of the poor, old and sick would be turned into food for the other half within 2 years.
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I'll take that over nuclear Holocaust.
 
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old manatee

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“Rachel and I aren’t even in the same building in the physical world, but it feels like we’re in the same place and can make eye contact,"

The juxtaposition of that quote and the picture of those first gen miis is so rich. All I can say is that Garfield would have handled this way better.
 
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Violet_0

Banned
ClosingADoor said:
Billionaire high-fiving someone while taking a virtual tour through a disaster area. It shows a complete lack of compassion.
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the thing is, I believe Zuckbot's intentions are mostly benelovent (as long as it doesn't have anything to do with taxes or FB). He's super awkward and tone deaf, but for the most part I'd say he generally means well. This VR presentation wasn't meant to mock the victims in PR, it's a genuinely cool technology, they just mishandled it terribly. Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think he'd be a pretty decent president, at least on social issues. I'd take one of the liberal tech billionaires and "visionaires" with a god-complex over another 4 years of Trump any day
 
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old manatee

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"Nobody could possibly do anything dumber with technology than Wolf Blitzer talking to a hologram of Will.i.a.m on election night.."


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therealist

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Vyse The Legend said:
It's tone deaf as fuck. Puerto Rico is not even remotely out of the woods yet -- in fact, things are likely to get worse. Yet, Zuck's promoting VR disaster tourism? It's exploitative.
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One way to actually see how bad it is is to view it on VR, which might increase awareness. Facebook gains from this but don't act like PR doesn't gain from it as well.
 
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Cimarron

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Good lord you guys are harsh. I think this is a great idea. I don't see how this is any different than live 2d footage. I could have done without the avatars but if people can get a better grasp of the destruction how is that a bad thing? Some you probably would have been angry at news paper articles having photos 120 years ago. *smh*
 
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TheLostBigBoss

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you can almost feel the sense of devastation and hopelessness, VR really is the next step!

Cimarron said:
Good lord you guys are harsh. I think this is a great idea. I don't see how this is any different than live 2d footage. I could have done without the avatars but if people can get a better grasp of the destruction how is that a bad thing? Some you probably would have been angry at news paper articles having photos 120 years ago. *smh*
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Because it's completely tone death and is basically an advert using a disaster with animated people smiling with destruction all around them
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
This really reads like an Onion piece.
 
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