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1. futurism.com › inside-building-8-facebooks-secretInside Building 8, Facebook's Secret Innovation Weapon - Futurism

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   Mar 21, 2017 · Building 8 is also taking to the air with the help of Frank Dellaert, a computer vision and robotics expert leading what appears to be a consumer drone project.

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2. www.businessinsider.com › facebooks-building-8Facebook's Building 8 Working on Camera, Augmented Reality ...

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   Apr 17, 2017 · At Building 8, technical project leads are treated like mini-CEOs and given two-year deadlines to prove a concept that will either be shipped and sold or spun out into a different part of Facebook ...

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3. www.inverse.com › article › 14286-here-s-whatHere's What Facebook's New DARPA-esque "Building 8 ... - Inverse

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   Apr 14, 2016 · The lab has hired Regina Dugan, the former leader of the Pentagon's DARPA research facility. Facebook has revealed the existence of a new group called “Building 8,” dedicated to researching ...

4. www.cnbc.com › 2019/08/02 › facebooks-flop-inFacebook's flop in hardware: The untold story of Building 8

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   Aug 2, 2019 · Key Points. Regina Dugan joined Facebook from Google to make the company relevant in hardware. Building 8, the laboratory she started, turned into a costly failure for Facebook, and Dugan was gone ...

5. indianexpress.com › article › technologyFacebook’s Building 8 exploring tech that will let people ...

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   Apr 20, 2017 · Facebook launched the research shop, called Building 8, last year to conduct long-term work that might lead to hardware products. In charge of the unit is Regina Dugan, who led a similar group at Alphabet Inc’s Google and was previously director of the US Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

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6. www.businessinsider.in › facebooks-mysteriousFacebook's mysterious hardware group is working on everything ...

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   Mar 19, 2017 · Regina Dugan/FacebookThree Building 8 workers tinker away.A top secret division within Facebook called Building 8 is working on at least four unannounced consumer

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   What is building 8?

   • Currently, Building 8 has four projects underway, and they touch upon cameras and augmented reality, devices that fly, and even brain-scanning technology. According to Business Insider, the technical lead for each project functions as a mini-CEO for the team, which has two years to produce a proof of concept.

   Inside Building 8, Facebook's Secret Innovation Weapon - Futurism

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   What does the 8 in building 8 mean on Facebook?

   • By late 2016, the group had put together a prototype and demo to show Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer, who gave it the green light and told Dugan to bring the product to customers. The eight in Building 8 represented the number of letters in Facebook.

   Facebook's flop in hardware: The untold story of Building 8

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   What is a technical project lead at Facebook's Building 8?

   • At Building 8, technical project leads are treated like mini-CEOs and given two-year deadlines to prove a concept that will either be shipped and sold or spun out into a different part of Facebook, which also owns Oculus VR, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Frank Dellaert, a technical project leader at Facebook's Building 8.

   Facebook's Building 8 Working on Camera, Augmented Reality, Mind

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   Who owns Building 8?

   • Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, Building 8's Regina Dugan, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. While Building 8 is only less than a year old, the group is already ramping up plans to release its products into the wild, with multiple open “go-to-market,” retail, supply chain, and customer experience job positions listed on its website.

   Facebook's Building 8 Working on Camera, Augmented Reality, Mind

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   What happened to building 8?

   • In December 2018, just two and a half years after its inception, Building 8 was stripped apart, with the core of the group becoming Portal. That product, the only gadget launched publicly by Building 8, is a video-calling device that’s failed thus far to gain traction in a highly competitive market.

   Facebook's flop in hardware: The untold story of Building 8

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   Will Building 8 jumpstart a fifth project?

   • Building 8 is reportedly planning to jumpstart a fifth project, as yet unspecified and leaderless. Based on the highly qualified hires for Building 8, Facebook appears to view the division as a long-term investment and is quite serious about manufacturing and selling its own devices — whatever they turn out to be.

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8. www.businessinsider.com › facebooks-regina-duganFacebook's Regina Dugan on Building 8 Brain Scanning Tech and ...

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   Apr 20, 2017 · Similarly, Building 8's projects have two-year deadlines to determine whether they can be successfully shepherded from the prototype stage to consumers. Every product that comes out of Building 8 ...