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- Hey everyone,
welcome to F8.
Today we're going to talk
about building a privacy-focused social platform.
Privacy gives us the freedom to be ourselves.
So it's no surprise
that the fastest ways that we're all communicating online
are private messaging, in small groups,
and in stories.
This is the next chapter for our services.
I get that a lot of people aren't sure
that we're serious about this.
(audience lightly laughing)
I know that we don't exactly have
the strongest reputation on privacy right now,
to put it lightly.
But I'm committed to doing this well.
And this vision is based on six principles.
First, we're committed to working openly.
Now second, we're taking a more proactive role
in making sure
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we're taking a more proactive role
in making sure that all of our partners and our developers
use our services for good.
We're also building out
a lot of deep technical infrastructure,
and re plumbing the whole infrastructure
that we built for this company
to support this privacy vision.
It's not gonna happen overnight,
so let's start with our messaging apps.
- Over the next year,
we plan to make Messenger
the fastest private communication app
on the entire planet.
With Lightspeed we'll use less battery,
less storage, and it will be more reliable
than ever before.
So early tests showed that we're going
from over 127 megabytes
down to under 30,
with a 1.3 second cold start time with Lightspeed.
The future is private.
So,
we have begun the journey
to make Messenger end-to-end encrypted by default.
For the first time,
we are building the ability
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for Messenger users to be able to call
and message not just their friends on Facebook,
but their close friends and family
on Instagram, and on WhatsApp.
Messenger's going to be building a social network
for your closest friends and family.
Specifically,
we will turn the second tab inside of Messenger
into a dedicated place
completely organized around the people
you care about most in your life.
Here you'll be able to do things like share status,
view stories,
and even reminisce about your favorite memories together.
We're also going to be announcing a new experience
for people to watch videos together
directly inside of Messenger.
And finally, something I am personally very excited about,
we're going to allow all of this
on every service, in every country,
with the introduction
of our brand new Messenger desktop app.
- All right, so let's move over
and talk about WhatsApp.
So WhatsApp already has
incredibly strong privacy and performance,
so here we're more focused on the next step,
which is building out all of the ways
that you would want to interact
in the digital living room.
- WhatsApp will always have its roots
in private messaging.
It's the heart of what we do.
Like Mark said, what we're seeing
is that the future is private.
So there' a lot we can layer
on top of private messaging.
Here's where we're starting.
If you live somewhere WhatsApp is popular,
you know people are constantly messaging businesses
on WhatsApp.
So we're making that easier.
We now have more powerful tools,
so people and businesses can communicate.
And we're excited to announce that soon,
we're rolling out a business product catalog
to this business app.
We're learning a lot from our tests in India,
where a million people have been able to send
and receive money.
And we're planning to bring payments
to other countries soon.
- And we believe
that there is a community for everyone.
So we've been working on a major evolution
to redesign the Facebook app
to make communities as central as friends.
- It all starts with a fresh new design
that is simpler, faster,
more immersive,
and puts your communities at the center.
We call it FB5.
It's gonna be coming
to your mobile app in the U.S. and Canada today,
and globally later this half.
And the new desktop site
is coming in the next few months.
Like the ability to save your spot in News Feed,
so you can pick up where you left off.
Or introducing Dark Mode on web
to give your eyes a break while watching videos.
We'll also start rolling out a similar design
to our Enterprise Product Workplace today.
We've completely redesigned the Groups tab,
and made Groups Discovery better than ever.
With more suggestions
and a new tool to quickly match you
to groups you might be interested in.
If you already have some groups that you love,
the new tab will give you direct access to those,
and show you a personalized view
of everything that's happening across them.
We're also bringing groups to the Composer,
so you can share to groups the same way you share
with friends and family.
Everywhere there are friends,
there should also be groups.
Now, Health Support Groups, will let members ask admins
to post anonymously on their behalf,
to protect their privacy around sensitive topics.
Shop groups will get a new template
to help employers post openings
and to let job-seekers apply directly through Facebook,
and message the employer.
Gaming groups will get a new chat feature,
so members will be able to create sub-threads
for every topic that they have in mind.
Today, we're introducing native support for shipping,
so sellers can list items for sale across the U.S.
Buyers will be able to check out directly on Facebook,
and when they get the items,
the payment will be deposited in the seller's bank account.
Super simple and secure.
You'll come to Facebook
not just to connect with people you already know,
but also to find people you might wanna know.
Maybe even the one.
With Facebook Dating, you can find matches
based on things you have in common,
like your shared groups and events.
Your dating profile is separate from your main profile,
and your activity there is only visible
to other people who have opted in.
And I'm excited to announce that today,
we're expanding dating to 14 more countries
with the U.S. coming up later this year.
We're also introducing something
called Secret Crush.
Secret Crush lets you create a private list
of friends that you might be interested in.
And if your friend also puts you on their list,
you match.
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If not, no problem. (speaks in foreign language)
No one will know who's on your list
or even that you've opted into Facebook dating.
So to help more people find more connections
to the people around them,
we've created Meet New Friends.
You can find people within shared communities
like your school, your workplace, or your city.
Like with Facebook Dating,
privacy and safety are built in.
Meet New Friends is opt-in
and your activity there is only visible
to other people who have opted in.
- We're also updating the Facebook icon,
refreshing it for the first time since I can remember
to make it a bit more lively and modern
so there we go.
And I'm excited to get this app in all of your hands.
We're shipping this today.
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Let's move on to Instagram.
- And so today we're announcing
a complete redesign of the Instagram camera.
Which is simpler and easier to use
and has a space that we're calling Create Mode.
Because sometimes you don't have a photo or a video,
but you actually want to share something.
So in Create Mode, you can share quizzes,
stickers, countdowns,
a lot of the other cool features
that we've built over the years.
In the new design of the profile,
which we're currently testing,
we have made follower counts much less prominent.
A bigger idea
is something we're starting to experiment later this week
called Private Like Counts.
What Private Like Counts mean is
that as you scroll through feed,
there are no like counts.
You can see who liked a photo or video,
you can tap through it,
and if you have the time you can add them all up yourself.
The owner can see how many people liked their photo,
but only if they asked.
Another key part of making Instagram feel like a place
where you're safe and supported is safety.
And so what we aspire to do,
and this will take years, I wanna be clear.
Is to lead the fight against online bullying.
And we've got a couple early ideas that I'm gonna share.
One is common filters,
and, essentially, nudges.
So if you say something aggressive,
maybe we give you a light nudge to rethink that.
Safety tools is another idea,
something we're tentatively calling Away Mode,
which is a way to opt out of Instagram
when you're in a sensitive moment.
Maybe you switched high schools.
Maybe you just went through a break up.
Another idea still,
is giving people ways of limiting those
who are being aggressive towards them on Instagram.
Now some of these are already testing,
some of these will test soon,
some of these might never see the light of day.
But given how much we care about this issue,
we wanted to share proactively with you today.
- We're also very focused on building technology
to shape the next generation of computing.
So today we're announcing
that we're bringing the Spark AR Studio
we're supporting both Windows and Mac,
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and we're also going to open our AR Beta for Instagram,
so everyone is gonna be able to build for it.
So building on this,
I'm excited to announce
that we are going to launch portal internationally.
We're starting in Canada in June,
and we're gonna be rolling it out
across a number of countries in Europe
coming later this fall.
Of course, it's really important
that we bring WhatsApp to portal.
So we're doing that.
So now you're going to be able to make video calls
on both WhatsApp and Messenger on portal.
And you know what that means.
That means that we're bringing end-to-end encryption
to all video calls on portal.
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All right now the last area that I want to talk about today
is virtual reality.
Because we are shipping two new products.
Oculus Rift S,
(audience cheering) which improves
on the original rift,
a higher-resolution display,
better optics,
inside-out tracking,
and of course we're launching Oculus Quest,
the all-in-one headset that we've all been waiting for
with no cables, (audience cheering)
and full freedom of movement.
- This is our VR product portfolio today,
the all-in-one form factor of Oculus Quest
lets you easily pack it up, take it to a friends place.
Second, just like Oculus Go,
we are bringing casting to Oculus Quest.
With a few taps, you can cast your VR experience
to your phone, or to your living room TV,
and friends can join right alongside.
Quest is an all-in-one headset
with no cables, and full freedom of movement.
No more external sensors,
no more PC to set up.
It's all on the headset.
And this is made possible by Oculus Insight.
Insight is our inside-out tracking system
that uses on-board sensors
to automatically build a map
of your physical play space.
The map is just used for tracking,
and only stored locally on the device.
The sensors use machine learning
to filter the environment
and create a dynamic point cloud.
And your headset remembers multiple play spaces.
Also true for Rift S.
Which means you can take the headset off,
hand it to your friend in another room,
and they can jump right in.
- So I'm excited to announce
that we are opening preorders
for both of them today
they are each gonna be $399,
they're gonna start shipping within a month,
on May 21.
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So that's how we're starting to build out
this privacy-focused vision
across everything we do.
It's still early,
but if we get this right,
then using all of these services
is gonna be a fundamentally different experience
a few years from now.
So thank you all,
I'm looking forward to doing this together
and have a great F8.
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