{"id":32931,"date":"2017-04-20T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idguk-twuk-3638269"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:47:00","slug":"15-things-we-learned-during-facebooks-2017-f8-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=32931","title":{"rendered":"15 things we learned during Facebook&#8217;s 2017 F8 conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/15-things-we-learned-during-facebooks-2017-f8-conference-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As Facebook's 2017 F8 conference wraps up we've got all the highlights from the two-day event, from Facebook's first VR product Spaces to Surround 360 VR cameras and brain-computer interfaces...\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"metaArticleContainer\">\n<section class=\"helpIcons\">\n<p>Share <\/p>\n<p> <span id=\"st_twitter\" class=\"st_twitter_custom shareIcon text-hide\" st_title=\"15+amazing+things+from+Facebook%27s+F8+conference+you+should+know+about\">Twitter<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"st_facebook\" class=\"st_facebook_custom shareIcon text-hide\" st_title=\"15+amazing+things+from+Facebook%27s+F8+conference+you+should+know+about\">Facebook<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"st_linkedin\" class=\"st_linkedin_custom shareIcon text-hide\" st_title=\"15+amazing+things+from+Facebook%27s+F8+conference+you+should+know+about\">LinkedIn<\/span><br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techworld.com\/picture-gallery\/apps\/facebook-big-announcements-3605650\/\">Facebook<\/a> CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose this week at a difficult time for the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The world is a thoroughly different place to the one in which he confidently announced that chatbots and VR would &#8220;change the way we all experience the world\u201d last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Now the head of the Oculus VR unit at Facebook, Palmer Luckey, has lost his job thanks to his ties to Donald Trump, a populist US president that many believe was aided in his journey to the White House by Facebook&#8217;s lax attitude to filtering &#8216;fake news&#8217; from people&#8217;s news feeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Then there is the recent controversy over Facebook&#8217;s video platform being hijacked by violent and sexual content in the wake of Cleveland gunman Steve Stephens uploading a video to the platform of him killing\u00a0a man, a serious issue for a platform that is driving a video-first approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">So what did Zuck announce at this year&#8217;s developer jamboree, and did he confront the big issues facing the company for the year ahead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose this week at a difficult time for the company. The world is a thoroughly different place to the one in which he confidently announced that chatbots and VR would &#8220;change the way we all experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}