It looks like just another beige office park building next to a dental office in Menlo Park, California. Yet Building 8, across the street from Facebook’s main campus, houses the social network’s biggest bets on out-there products.The tech industry has a term for what people inside Building 8 work on: moonshots. Think potentially groundbreaking projects that could reshape Facebook’s long-term future and even how all of us communicate. CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Building 8 (named for the number of letters in Facebook) at last year’s F8 developer conference. He also revealed he’d recruited Regina Dugan from Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group to head Facebook’s skunkworks efforts, as part of Zuckerberg’s 10-year strategic plan. Now Playing: Watch this: Facebook’s Building 8 lab working on moonshots for mind… 3:09 Since then, Facebook has given tantalizing hints about Building 8’s mission, saying only that it’s focused on “seemingly impossible” hardware in augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, connectivity and “other important breakthrough areas,” with “clear objectives for shipping products at scale.” The one thing we knew for sure: The company had been amassing a dream team of hardware veterans from the likes of Apple, Motorola, Google and other industry heavyweights. Some… Read full this story
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