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critics are blasting mark zuckerberg for a tone death virtual reality video that toward hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico the Facebook CEO demonstrated the Facebook spaces product it lets users make cartoon avatars of themselves to talk in virtual reality Zuckerberg stood alongside Rachel Franklin the head of social VR for Facebook and in poor taste called the technology magical as they gave a high-five to each other in front of flooded homes one of the things that's really magical about virtual reality is you can get the feeling that you're really in a place right it's a pressure to mention this before but Rachel and I actually aren't even I think in the same building and in the physical world it feels like we're in the same place and we're making eye contact we're talking to each other and listen now I mean this is where we're looking around and you know it it feels like we're really here in Puerto Rico the billionaire was slammed by users on social media for looking completely out of touch and for exploiting the disaster to show off the technology while people are still suffering from the damage of Hurricane Maria zuckerberg also spoke about how the company is donating to help relief efforts and then the two cartoons decided to fly off to somewhere less depressing all right somewhere else yeah maybe back to California if only everyone there could just magically transport to another place right Zuckerberg will discuss more virtual reality news at the oculus connect Developers Conference going on now the Facebook owned oculus will be touting reasons why consumers should buy a gadget to put on their face and why developers should make programs for it I'm Bridget Carey for more coverage on oculus connect pedasi Netcom