Why I’m finally psyched about the Oculus Rift.

During an onstage demo at this year’s Oculus Connect, Mark Zuckerberg
donned a headset and checked in on Beast, his Hungarian sheepdog, at home.

During the third-annual Oculus Connect conference in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, the message was abundantly clear: The future of virtual reality is social.

“The next phase [of VR] is all about building new, great software experiences,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained onstage during the conference keynote. Facebook (FB) purchased Oculus for $2 billion in 2014.

The most compelling moment? A 10-minute demo in which Zuckerberg wore a Rift headset and showed how easily it was for him to perform day-to-day tasks in VR, including playing a game of High Card with two of his colleagues’ VR avatars, checking on his Hungarian sheepdog Beast, viewing photos and even having an impromptu fencing match with a virtual sword one of the avatars sketched on the fly.


By JP Mangalindan.
Full story at Yahoo News.