Watch Facebook’s F8 Conference Here

By Stefanie Fogel

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – The Facebook Developers Conference (a.k.a F8) kicked off on Tuesday, Apr. 30 in San Jose, Calif. with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and people can watch it live in the player below. It’s also available on or on the Oculus App .

This is Facebook’s tenth conference. It began in 2007 as an 8-hour hackathon (hence the name), but it’s since evolved into a 2-day event for developers, creators, and entrepreneurs who use the social media platform. The conference features deep-dive sessions, product demos, and more.

The Oculus Rift S and the Oculus Quest are both shipping on May 21 and they’re now available for pre-order, Zuckerberg announced during his keynote. The Rift S is an upgrade to Facebook’s flagship VR headset. It features improved optics and a higher resolution display. The Oculus Quest, meanwhile, is a standalone device powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset and 4GB of RAM. It comes in a 64GB version for $399 and a 128GB version for $499.

Zuckerberg also touted the platform’s new “privacy-focused vision” less than a week after Facebook executives said during an earnings release the company expects to pay as much as $5 billion to settle an ongoing FTC investigation into its privacy practices. He unveiled a dedicated desktop Facebook app along with an updated Messenger app. Both feature built-in encryption. He also announced an updated Facebook app with a cleaner look. It rolls out today.