Facebook's key to building communities in divided times: augmented reality

Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 conference hinted that AR encourages people to interact with others - although that experience is still mediated by a screen

We live in a time when society is divided and work is needed to bring people together, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks it has the solution: augmented reality.

Speaking on stage at the company's annual developer conference F8, Zuckerberg outlined the company's plan to turn the camera app into a platform that makes it easy for people to build augmented reality experiences, whereby digital objects and information are overlaid onto or used to enhance the physical space.