Eight visions of Facebook's future from its F8 conference

Mark Zuckerberg's social network is betting big on augmented reality, hasn't given up on VR - but doesn't have much to say about the 'Facebook killer'

As Apple has WWDC and Google has I/O, so Facebook has F8: the social network's big annual conference has steadily grown, from a way to speak to developers about the upcoming changes to its platform to an event where the whole world hears about the exciting new products coming from the House of Zuckerberg.

Facebook's chief executive may not quite have Steve Jobs' infamous "reality distortion field" - the social network's ideal world is more like an artificial reality where none of the outside world penetrates - but he can still wow when he wants to. Here's the eight biggest things to take away from the San Jose event.