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HAVING WRAPPED UP social and messaging, Facebook plans to make its mark in two major areas, virtual reality (VR) and developing services needed to deal with rising data usage.
Its CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an appearance during Samsung’s press event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as part of Samsung’s Gear VR product. The headset is another VR device that Oculus VR, the company Facebook bought back in 2014, helped develop.
Zuckerberg compared the rise of VR to its other messaging services like WhatsApp and Messenger and views it as another way of connecting people. The company announced the creation of a ‘social VR’ team which will look at the different ways people can use the technology for interaction both today and in the future.
“We’ve already helped people connect in a wide variety of ways on mobile devices – ranging from Facebook and Instagram to Messenger and WhatsApp – and now we want to apply the same approach to the new medium of VR,” the company said in a blog post.
In the future, VR will enable even more type of connection – like the ability for friends who live in different parts of the world to spend time together and feel like they’re there with each other.
Samsung announced that it would include its VR headset, the Gear VR, with any pre-orders of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. The device requires recent Samsung smartphones to operate and on its own, it costs $99. Zuckerberg also said that people have watched more than one million hours of 360 video in Gear VR.
It wasn’t the only thing that Facebook announced that would have implications for connectivity. The company announced a major project called the ‘Telecom Infra Project‘ (TIP), a plan to redesign telecom infrastructure so it can deal with increasing data usage around the world.
Since new data-intensive services like video are growing and others like VR are tipped to explode over time, TIP will look at ways to help speed up the development of telecom infrastructure so both users and providers will be able to adapt to this change.
The company is teaming up with the likes of Intel and Nokia to help develop the service. The project is part of Internet.org, its plans to deliver the internet to the developing world, and looks to reduce the cost of building mobile networks across the world.
As far as VR is concerned, the most recognisable headset out there is Oculus Rift but other companies announcing developments with their VR headsets included HTC, which announced the pricing for its own headset Vive.
Since it comes with two motion sensor controllers and a built-in camera (to help wearers navigate the room without bumping into objects), the headset will cost $799, making it more expensive than the Oculus Rift, and pre-orders will open on 29 February.
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‘At the end of our period in office people will judge us’ …. We already judging you Enda….just remember it!
Why would they. They know they’re out in the next election. They can retire on a fat pension at your expense.
Indeed Bobby… hes fat pension will also be TAX free.. “Mr Kenny will be entitled to a yearly pension of €100,000, and would also be eligible for a “golden goodbye” pay-off of €139,008 — taking his full pension entitlement to €3,429,728″ when others are expected to live on under 180 euros a week
So the government aren’t too bothered by what the ordinary people think…anyone else not at all surprised?? Roll on May elections…..
No one gives a shit about the May elections. At a push, maybe 30% will vote. There’s very little power involved at council level.
Says Konnie – a great supporter of the democratic FG/Lab Coalition – my golly the Blushirts are squirming already – even before the Locals/EU Elections by saying that they mean nothing – We just love it when you guys react and are fazed so much – ha ha he he he !!!!!!
“Says Konnie – a great supporter of the democratic FG/Lab Coalition”
I see you make a habit of accusing people of all sorts when you have no evidence to the contrary. Yes, you’re defo a SF supporter.
” We just love it when you guys react and are fazed so much ”
So you’re a SF spokesperson are you? Great. Was Gerry int the IRA?
SF’s health policy hinges on free cancer breast checks for women over 40 and joining up the NI and republic’s healthcare system. Yep, that’ll sort out our healthcare crisis. Lol.
hahaha.
One of these days they’ll explain how they propose to do it.
What do you propose Ciarrioch to sort out the problem? 32 county Ireland? Lol. You’re a fool. A SF lackey.
I think turnout will be a lot higher than 30%. There’s a lot of anger towards this Government; they’ve broken every promise that they made to electorate. Fine Gael’s Five Point Plan no longer exists, for God’s sake. They couldn’t stand over it after two years, never mind a full term. Labour will also be hammered, given that they have completely enabled Fine Gael as opposed to acting as a counter-balance to FG’s agenda as they said they would. The established parties present the illusion that there’s no point in voting for someone else because “they’re all the same” or “it won’t make any difference”. I think people are starting to see that for the lie that it is. Change can happen slowly, Konnie.
Konnie – Are you already In the house for the bewildered ?
You are very fazed – just like your buddies in the Coalition ?
‘Twont be long now !!!!!
Change to what Vinheff?
There is no alternative. No politically aware adult would contemplate a SF vote after viewing their insane policies. It reads like a manifesto concocted on the back of a beer mat in a local boozer. It’s a joke.
Phased lad, phased is he word you’re looking for.
Now, be a big boy and answer my question above, instead of throwing childish insults.
And there is the root of the problem, this shower couldn’t give a sh1t as long as their snouts are well & truly buried in the trough and the backbenchers with their heads so far up kennys backside that they can see labours shoes.
This crowd will allow a few scraps to fall off the table in hope that the electorate will bow down and thank them.
The contempt will be paid back with interest.
If SF ever saw power we’d be having an election the following month again because they spend more time riddled in controversy than the government themselves.
The last thing we need is SF. Anyone but them.
Now here is definate proof of the contempt and paranoia involved in fg/lab.
Anybody that has anything to say against this government is a “Shinner”.
Not an independent supporter or undecided but a Shinner.
Hereby lies the problem and the blinded contempt shown by this government and its supporters.
Konnie – I speak for no one no body but I …. a chara.
As for Gerry Adams , why don’t you ask him ?
If he was , it would be in the proud tradition of Michael Collins , Ned Daly , Austin Stack , Arthur Griffith , Sean South , Sean McBride , Bobby Sands , Martin McGuinness – needi go on ? There are many thousands more !
Andin the week that’s in it the brave girls of the Woman’s Corp – Cumann Na mBan – over a 100 years !
A great and proud tradition …Konnie !
( Are you one of the Aer Lingus’s Family? )
What do you propose Ciarrioch to sort out the health crisis problem?
Keep in mind Konnie, no one gives a shit about you rebel ballads when they are visiting a sick family member on a trolley in a hospital corridor.
What do you propose? That’s the question. Save your ballads for after closing time in your local boozer.
Kenny and FG will get into bed with the devil if it means another 5 years in govt so getting into bed with SF will be an easier choice…lab wont be there next time around to provide the numbers and even when the fg back benchers who were relieved of the party whip are welcomed back along with lowry they are going to be short a majority to form a govt…Kenny lied to the electorate during the run up to the elections…and the electorate will have their say
None of them will touch SF. No way. It’s highly likely any majority coalition partner will turn to Independents over SF. Clare Daly and co will see power quicker than SF.
“I see you make a habit of accusing people of all sorts when you have no evidence to the contrary. Yes, you’re defo a SF supporter.”
You realise this makes you look like an idiot right?
Does it? Why? Do you spend your time singing rebel ballads too?
Vinheff says change is happening slowly. Is Fianna Fáil back on 25% what he calls change?? Strange that, could have sworn we had that situation before……
There has been talk for years in the border counties of linking with the Northern Ireland hospital health boards, it makes good practical sense to co-operate.
Northern Ireland at present have their own problems over DUP/SF parties not reaching agreement over the health budget. It might turn out that the UK will have to step in and sort it out shortly. So much for power sharing.
The reality is that SF will pass nothing as a minority government partner. Their proposals are ludicrous.
They have no plans to do anything if they get elected. Time after time they have been decimated by VB alone on those proposals.
You cannot take them seriously. They are a party for people that can’t or won’t read policy.
In Northern Ireland there is always the backstop of the UK government stepping in if Stormont parties cannot come to a sensible agreement over budgets
If the same were to happen in this country it would be the tax payer that would be squeezed even further, So I certainly don’t look forward to the day when Sinn Fein go into government in this country viewing the NI experience, they haven’t a clue.
I give a shit Konnie, and i will be voting, those that dont vote dont deserve the right to vote, people have died so that people like you have the right to vote,
@john Meade your delirious I’m not voting because I don’t want ff FG labour or sf representing me I want a person to represent my area the locals like on another post if they come and ask for your vote and they say a party they have already lost…. Collectivism of political parties does not work any more we say we are an educated nation but we vote in the same thing over and over it pointless
Who needs support when you can just make some horse sh*t coalition come election results anyway?
You can be determined all you want Richard…but if you’re inept you’re inept
They will be judged along with labour and they will pointed towards the door.
Methinks that they might be “phased” , by the night after the EU and Locals next month ?
I just can’t wait for the fun that night !
And the “excuses” !!!!
Ciarraioch
Perhaps you might explain the word phased so I can prepare my usual response.
Richard do you need help in formulating an insult? Check all the responses you’ve received. Plenty of material there.
Ciarraioch
Because if you mean forlorn or upset you might need to understand that Fine Gael and Labour have always accepted the decisions made by the electorate. Other slightly Constitutional Parties such as your own have never understood or embraced democracy and thus the Shinners always referred to themselves as the political wing (of a Military Movement). Thus we know who really guides your policy making and thus we understand that your Leader really can’t be deposed by the members in convocation.
Richard/Rachel/David etc etc and all of the other fake twitter names you use !
“Phased” , is what you are going to be , each time that you see a poll result , up to and until after the next general Election !
After that you and your FG and Stickie friends will be in a ‘ house for the bewildered’!!!!!
Richard I see your verbal diarrhoea is in full flow, well done however your deflection needs work.
Richard x Multiple names – fazed is what you will feel like, after all the other phases have occurred !!!!
No matter what happens Ciarraioch, FG will still do better than SF. That’ll tell you the space SF occupies in the public consciousness.
What an abject failure SF has been considering we’ve had 2 disastrous Governments. If that in itself is not proof SF are too a disaster, I don’t know what is.
Richard is not bothered and why would he be, millionaire several times over lavish pensions, however the first time back benchers aren’t happy campers.
Richard X Multiple fake Twitter names – You always remind me of your great FG Fascist Leader – Owen O’Duffy , of your Blueshirt Nazi Movement – are you a close relative ?
Bruton and FG would love to ignore the fact that they have been so bad people are actually willing to consider FF again.
FF support is soft. They have no hope. SF support is untested so they may win big or lose big. The jury is out on that one. FG will be fairly secure. Bye bye Lab.
Norman
Don’t publicly display your envy at the assumed wealth that can be amassed over a number of generations by a hard working and respectable and highly educated family. The green eyed monster is merely confirmation that you belong to the inferior grouping who don’t want to provide for themselves but expect everyone else to contribute to their intellectual and social laziness.
Jealousy ultimately creates the fiction that wealth is evil or wrong or socially unacceptable . The truth however points to the idea that ambition within society is more frequently fired up by role models and when we seek out those among us I can confirm that you won’t be on the list.
Richard you mistake a statement of fact for envy.Why would I envy anyone who willing foisted a corrupt debt on the shoulders of generations not yet born?
Anyone who considers FF under any circumstances must have a very short memory or not sound of mind! Just have a look around…
Unlike the 1916 Leaders who laid down their lives for the country, you and your equals will walk off with vulgar golden handshakes and pensions. I often wonder who of ye would lay down your life for the country. ?
That was 100 years ago. Can we move on? Then again in our recent history SF were laying down other peoples lives, and they too will get Dail pensions and handshakes.
Tony..Id like to ask you what do you exactly mean by ‘your country’ ?
Do you mean the greedy corrupt selfish narrow minded people and establishment whom of this land!???
The 1916 gunmen were thugs who engaged in murder in order to achieve their own selfish aims. They are exactly the same as all modern versions of the IRA.
Patrick Lyons haven’t seen many of your posts lately.Love the “popeye”avatar btw.
Thanks Norman.
FF/SF government next.
it’s easy to please you, you can wallow in yere victory that night but when it comes to the general election ye will be wallowing in yere own excrement again.
That was for ciarraioch
Norman – the “Patrick Lyons” fake twitter account, presumably was blocked , by virtue of all the libellous commentary under the three strikes rule !
Oh Doc – I clean forgot that your were “Richard” as well !
You are very bewildered , today !
What are going to be like for the next few years ?????
Chlorpromazine is very good for that sort of thing my fellow kerryman, Richard,kenneth,patrick , How many more names shall be bestowed upon me, if you bothered to research you will find my twitter account is genuine and this paranoia from ye lot is getting tedious
Norman
Sinn Fein voted for the Bank Guarantee so I believe your memory is either short or defective and if neither you are dishonest.
Sorry Nigel can’t see where I said “your country”
Richard I don’t understand your comment to me, I neither mentioned Sinn Fen or the bank guarantee. I was alluding to the promissory note that was converted into sovereign debt by those clowns in FG and Lab.
I’m not a Sinn Fein supporter, but that is irrelevant but I do remember SinnFein with drawing there support for the Bank Guarantee when it became all encompassing.
Don’t try to rewrite history Richie, there’s enough idiots in government trying to do that.
Ciarraioch, your comment could be deemed libellous. You have just made an written statement which is untrue defaming my character.
“Because if you mean forlorn or upset you might need to understand that Fine Gael and Labour have always accepted the decisions made by the electorate.”
Its just a pity they dont stick to promises made to the electorate.
Richie, you are always on here criticizing people that don’t agree with FG.
As of today i am an undecided voter. sell FG to me. why should I vote for them you seem to have all the FG spin nailed down. Lets hear it?
Pickart – I would never defame your character – you do that frequently all by yourself yourself – virtually every time you make a comment ! Just count up your red Thumbs down sometime ?
It’s virtually always a great gauge of your utter nonsense being peddled !
Apologies Tony..you said ‘the country’..implying the same thing..so I take it you have no answer??
Norman
“withdrawing their support” for the Bank guarantee after they had provided it as a vote in Dail Eireann!
Is that the way you believe Sinn Fein could contribute to the running of a National economy if they became a part of a future Government !
You must be seriously deluded if you believe we would last a month were that kind of fiscal management ever happened.
Just goes to show how arrogant and out of touch they are. They’ll be taught a harsh lesson in the local elections.
Of course their not phased by the poll result 2016 the old pension pot will be bulging won’t it Richard….
Wonder if enda will get the message and head off to Europe.
A non functioning government who will spend the remains of its tenure covering up scandal after corruption.Its not a healthy situation for the country and one which should not be tolerated by the people.May 23rd will be the turning point for the people to tell this European government that we want our nation back.
Surely the headline should read ‘….not fazed by ……’ Really Journal, you should know better!
Give a few quid back in tax in there last budget and the think people will forget the austerity they put on us the lies the told us. Oh and The bulling.
All the so called reforms. These clowns are inflicting on the irish people , are making things very difficult and miserable for a lot of people , if I was a betting man I’d say theirs not a chance of Fine Gael and labour getting re-elected
Yes they will be judged but i don’t have any confidence in the Irish Electorate. The same muppets will get back in again. If not FG then it will be FF.
Like someone said yesterday. No vote no benefits. Or maybe a fine for not voting. The middle classes will always vote to keep the middle classes in power. The working and lower classes are the only ones who can change this but only by getting off their holes and voting non FF FG LAB.
” Or maybe a fine for not voting”
Yes, true democracy. If anything, you should be fined for suggesting that.
I understand feeling anger towards the coalition. As others said, they have broken every promise they made. FG/LAB will never get my vote. I’m particularly disappointed with LAB, who have abandoned all pre-election principles.
It’s worrying that FF are neck and neck with FG though. As bad as FG are, FF are so much worse. Are we really going to hand the keys of the country back to the drunks that drove it of the cliff in the first place, because their successors aren’t fixing the gargantuan mess left behind quickly enough?
If FF get into power in ’16, we deserve everything we get.
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke” – Will Rogers.
Does it really matter
I can guarantee 100% that the next government will be as inept as the last
Anybody who thinks otherwise is dreaming
I always thought that Fine Gael stood for “honesty and integrity”!
I voted for them!
In the last few weeks the shocking revelations do not reflect the full truth!
Lobbying for so called “charities” by a FG high ranking member who was paid €80,000 PA (for lobbying) to get significant grants from Government for a Registered so called “charity” while it’s CEO was paid a salary of €250,000 PA is clearly wrong and immoral!
This Government undertook to appoint a Regulator fir Charities!
Why the delay!
How much money did the HSE pay Alan Shatter’s Law Firm in legal fees the last year?
I thought it was illegal for Government to pay fees to “connected parties”!
Who set up Bailey for murder? Why not disclose the truth?
The austerity Programme is NOT working!
Time for change!
Well it looks like the next government will be another coalition. Without any new direction or any real reform taking place the same parties hold onto power for another five years. The only possibility looks like FF/FG in government. Just think of all those millions spent as we celebrate the 1916 rising. Dinners, speeches and back slapping between the old enemies. Austerity for those who deserve it not does who can afford it. Difference put aside to that their names can become part of history without any bullets being fired. Shatter, Hogan, O’Reilly and Kenny in ministerial office until 2021.
ha ha ha imagine being in FG now. 3 years ago they had the biggest majority (ok still do at the moment) in the history of the state. All they had to do was keep even some election promises and FF would be gone and their main opponents would be lab or sf. But no herr enda and his merrymen made such a mess of it FF are back and are going to challenge in the next general. what a fn joke.
people say these this thing called the luck of the Irish but how unlucky were we to have cowan’s inept crew replaced with this shower of muppets. before i am accused of being a shinner i voted Emmet Stag and i wont be making that mistake again
You’re a langer alright, your simplistic critique of the government is as it is simple just like your reasoning you muppet.
your opinion of my opinion carries as much weight as a Fg election promise…………….ya langer!
I’m so excited I can’t wait for this new utopian government to get elected in the next election, the panacea to all our ills, imagine NEW FF, the shinners and mick Wallace and co. in a new rainbow coalition, we will see then the weight of your opinion which is about as vacuous as your brain.
phase
verb (used with object), phased, phas·ing.
to schedule or order so as to be available when or as needed.
to put in phase; synchronize: to phase one mechanism with another.
faze
verb (used with object), fazed, faz·ing.
to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
Yikes, Enda channelling Tony Blair now? “History will be my judge!”
Rainbow government on the way and there will be no pot of gold at the end of it
I know of a person, at the last general election who voted for Fine Fail, because it was tradition like ye know. What on earth is wrong with people. Judge on merit given fair chance and support.
A party should be given support and the job of the opposition is to push them to make sure A. corruption is spotted and punished and B. as an alternative to the situation given. An alternative, not more of the same cr4p.
What is going on now is such a depressing mess – people here are just bickering about how bad the government are and blah blah blah – Im not saying they’re not doing a bad job but for gods sake people are just jumping on the phrasing of a sentence – its quite clear that Kenny and Gilmore have their hearts in the right place, much like Brian Lenihan of FF before as he worked with no bloody thanks with the mess he inherited from idiots before him while on deaths door.
The Health System is a mess but it has always been a mess – the problem isnt the Government its the Health System that employs people to be massively unproductive with their time and nonpunishable for laziness. The vast majority are good hard workers but some just mess the whole thing up.
What we need are rational people making tough decisions – the pot is not bottomless and I think that is what we have and any alternatives would just have to take the cash from somewhere else.
Cognitive Dissonance.
phased?
yes, phased.
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