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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico ... by emodendroket on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:38AM (#15450593)
It's not the technology so much as the tone of the video that was off-putting, I think. The Times also did some 360 video of PR devastation and nobody was shocked.
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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico ... by tmccrmck on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @01:02PM (#15451251)
It's not the tone - it's the fact that one uses a natural disaster for self-promotion while the other does it to inform the populace about the extent of damage.
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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico ... by hackinthebochs on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:40PM (#15452131)
How can using any new medium in such a context NOT be seen as self-promotion? It can't. But the benefits of the new medium also shouldn't be sidelined over the fear that folks like you might get outraged over a non-issue.
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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico ... by emodendroket on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @03:07PM (#15452407)
I feel like it'd help to avoid saying features of your product "are really cool" as you use it to present disaster footage. Also the upbeat cartoon avatars were probably not a good choice.
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