Zuckerberg's Future World VR Becomes Mainstream in 10 Years

In Mark Zuckerberg's future world, all of us will play and socialize in virtual spaces. Facebook’s executive director predicts that VR will become mainstream in the next decade and provide unprecedented social immersion.

He said: "Virtual reality and augmented reality will become the most social platform for fashion."

Zuckerberg talked about the future of VR in a question-and-answer session in Rome's town hall on Monday, answering live audience questions and pre-recorded video questions. This question and answer session is part of Zuckerberg's trip to Italy.

On this trip, he will send a drone model to the Pope, meet Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and attend the wedding of Daniel Ek, Spotify Executive Director. Zuckerberg said that he misses Maxine, the daughter of California. He said: "If it makes me feel like I'm around her, then it will be a very powerful social experience."

Social networks can currently only reconstruct scenes from 2D images. Zuckerberg pointed out: "You try to pretend to look at a picture and you can imagine the scene inside." But the virtual reality is different because it can remove the abstraction layer and directly imitate your imagined scene. He said: "You will feel like you are really in it. It's really there."

At the end of the Q&A session, some people criticized Facebook for destroying more traditional forms of interaction, and VR would only make things worse. Zuckerberg replied: "This is to allow you to communicate with people who do not normally have time to contact. Nothing can replace face-to-face communication."