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slash disclosures. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast.

Today we're bringing you one of our internal hallway style conversations about some of the

things that Facebook announced last week at F8, its annual developer conference.

And A6 and Z partners Kyle Russell and Connie Chan talk about everything from parametric QR codes.

They touch briefly on brain computer interfaces and then move on to AR augmented

reality, social VR, virtual reality, and even revisit a topic we covered on the podcast last year with

a popular episode on bots to talk more about bots. Over to Kyle and Connie. So did Facebook

announce anything at F8 on the messaging front? You know, with your writings on WeChat, you're kind of

a resident expert on that.

So I'm really curious to hear how you thought about their announcements.

I think they made a couple of announcements.

But the one that caught my attention was the launch of the parametric QR codes.

And I think it's great that they're putting this big push into getting users more familiar

with this idea of using your phone as a scanner to scan, QR codes that can take you,

I think in Facebook's case, to a particular messaging bot conversation.

What I also liked in what they launched was that particular company or a restaurant or a venue or whatnot

can use multiple different codes to take you to different experiences.

So one example that I've seen

talked about is a restaurant that can put a different code on each specific table so that each

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