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Behold, Mark Zuckerberg's Latest Effort to Make the World Worse

Zoom is bad enough, but Oculus' new product adds creepy cartoon avatars and a virtual whiteboard into the mix.

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Katherine Krueger
Aug 19, 2021
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Oculus Horizon Workrooms demo. (Screenshot: Oculus)

What's perhaps even more horrifying than the idea of a never-ending pandemic? The notion that we'll never, ever get back to normal social interactions, and the interactions we do have will be increasingly stilted and heavily mediated by Facebook, with us watching ourselves as legless cartoons in a virtu…

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