--- title: Watch Mark Zuckerberg's Dog 3D Present VIDEO description: The Hungarian sheepdog Beast received a customized artwork for his birthday—and it's also a pretty tech-forward present. canonical: https://time.com/4630657/mark-zuckerberg-dog-video/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-10T20:10:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:04.502Z og:title: Mark Zuckerberg's Dog Got Quite a Unique Birthday Present og:description: Six-year-old pet Beast received an elaborate, tech-forward gift on his big day. og:url: https://time.com/4630657/mark-zuckerberg-dog-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mark Zuckerberg's Dog Got Quite a Unique Birthday Present twitter:description: Six-year-old pet Beast received an elaborate, tech-forward gift on his big day. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mark Zuckerberg's Dog Got Quite a Unique Birthday Present  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 10, 2017 8:10 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 10, 2017 8:10 PM UTC Life is pretty good for [Beast](http://time.com/3980556/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-dog-beast/?iid=sr-link1), the [beloved Hungarian sheepdog](http://time.com/4537421/mark-zuckerberg-daughter-photo/?iid=sr-link2) of the Zuckerberg family. On Tuesday, [Beast](https://www.facebook.com/beast.the.dog/) turned six—and to mark the occasion, the Facebook CEO shared a video of the elaborate, tech-savvy present the canine received on his big day. This is no ordinary dog chew toy; instead, it’s a custom sculpture of the lucky pampered pet, replete with his distinctive ivory locks. “A few weeks ago, an artist at [Oculus](http://time.com/4169430/oculus-rift-price-release-date-2016/?iid=sr-link6) designed and printed a 3D sculpture in VR,” Zuckerberg explained of the unique figurine. “Beast was pretty confused, but I love that we have the technology and culture where people just make things like this for fun.” The artist sculpted the artwork using [Oculus Medium](https://www.oculus.com/medium/), a [version of VR](http://time.com/4172998/virtual-reality-oculus-rift-htc-vive-ces/?iid=sr-link2) that lets you create tangible objects using Touch controllers, and then was printed at Facebook’s hardware lab, which they call [“Area 404”](https://code.facebook.com/posts/561611824036387/inside-facebook-s-hardware-labs-moving-faster-with-more-collaboration/) after that frustrating error message that sometimes pops up. (No errors in sight for this product, though.) Happy birthday, you lucky Beast. Here’s a peek inside the making of this distinctive gift: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4630657/mark-zuckerberg-dog-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4630657/mark-zuckerberg-dog-video/"},"headline":"Mark Zuckerberg's Dog Got Quite a Unique Birthday Present","datePublished":"2017-01-10T20:10:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:04.502Z","description":"No chewing allowed","url":"https://time.com/4630657/mark-zuckerberg-dog-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4630657/mark-zuckerberg-dog-video/","name":"Mark Zuckerberg's Dog Got Quite a Unique Birthday Present"}}]}] ```