Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Upcoming
Features in First Facebook Live Q&A
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg conducted his first ever live
Q&A on the social platform to answer people's queries from across the
world. Using Facebook Live for the first time in a Q&A session, he touched
upon various topics including online education, specific features for the
disabled, Live Video upgrades, virtual reality, and even briefly mentioned
Orlando shooting that happened over the weekend.
Zuckerberg began the session by answering the most popular question. A Facebook user from Sydney requested folders on
Facebook to store things like recipes. The question had about 1,000 likes, and
Zuckerberg claimed that the company was working on it, without getting into the
specifics. In the meanwhile, he asserted that there are hoards of special
interest groups on Facebook that users could join to learn and share things of
the same interest with each other.
He also made a special mention to the 49 people that were killed
in Orlando over the weekend. He read out a comment from a Florida user
asserting that social media technology needs to be used to find solutions to
humanities problems, and work together towards peace.
Touching upon online education, Zuckerberg expressed interest
over building tools that would enable users to learn things on the social media
platform. He also confirmed that Facebook is working on features to improve
experience for the challenged and disabled. The social platform will use
artificial intelligence to build tools that would decode an image and read it
out loud for the blind users. Moreover, it looks to support video subtitles for
users who are hearing impaired.
Facebook also is working on improving Live Videos, and bring
tweaks like chat back for a more immersive experience. This will enable talk
back into the video, for a real time chat on Facebook. Zuckerberg just said
that it was a work-in-progress, and did not dwell into any timeframe specifics.
He also spoke about the social giant's push into virtual
reality. He said that while virtual reality is a grand tech innovation, it is
not the end of it. There is a lot past VR, and research to capture thought is
also been conducted. "There is some crazy brain research going on, where
you can take an MRI of a person doing different activities, and then can
predict what they are thinking. It's a technology that is still many years
away," he said.
Zuckerberg chose to keep it light, and even ended all rumours that he is not a lizard. He even said that if he were to start Facebook in
today's times, it would be via a mobile app. He rubbished rumours of ever
making Facebook a paid platform, and said that the main aim of the platform was
to connect people. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld also joined him at the end of the
Q&A for a brief period.
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