When heads of state come to visit Facebook’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg likes to give them an Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset to try.
The social network’s founder has played VR ping pong with world leaders, and maybe even a shooting game, “depending on what kind of leader it is”, he told attendees at the Oculus Connect conference in Silicon Valley this week.
Addressing hundreds of VR software developers, Mr Zuckerberg recalled an incident when one prime minister was being “yelled at” by his wife because he refused to return to the real world and catch their flight home. “I was told there was a dinosaur! Where is the dinosaur?” the unnamed leader exclaimed, according to Mr Zuckerberg.