I found the article pretty hard to read...it did not have a clear structure or narrative, had some weird, pithy quotes [1] [2] [3], and generally felt more like a puff piece written by a breathless admirer than serious journalism.<p>But the main takeaway seems to be the &quot;very clear&quot; 5-10 year R&amp;D roadmap for Oculus:<p>&gt; Oculus, then, represents two big bets in one: that VR will be the next major computing platform, supplanting phones the same way that handheld devices usurped desktops—and that human nature won’t change. &quot;If you look at how people spend time on all computing platforms, whether it’s phones or desktops before that, about 40% is spent on some kind of communications and media,&quot; Zuckerberg says. &quot;Over the long term, when [Oculus] becomes a more mature platform, I would bet that it’s going to be that same 40% of the time spent doing social interactions and things like that. And that’s what we know. That’s what we can do.&quot;<p>Seems logical that VR is going to be FBs next big play, and their ability to get a good product to market relatively soon will be crucial. It&#x27;s astounding how much revenue they are still able to pull in from a botspammed, broken advertising model on a product that (from my observations of friends&#x2F;app store comments) is declining in popularity in the US, one of the most lucrative segments.<p>[1] &quot;This is not big data,&quot; says Bordes, who is wearing a T-shirt depicting a robot boxing a dinosaur. &quot;This is supersmall data.&quot;<p>[2] &quot;I personally called up the guy who’s leading our laser-communications effort, who was working at [NASA’s] Jet Propulsion Laboratory,&quot; he recalls. &quot;And he said, ‘What? Why are you calling me?’ And I said, ‘Because we’re connecting the world, and I want you to come in and meet the team, and this is something that’s really important to me, and I think we can make a big difference.’ &quot; Even in the retelling, Zuckerberg makes it sound urgent.<p>[3] Yael Maguire director, Connectivity Lab: &quot;Our focus is technologies that can advance the state of the art by at least an order of magnitude. We don’t want to make something better by a factor of two or three, because the rest of the industry is going to do that.&quot;