Facebook hosted its traditional F8 developer conference, where it presented its latest ambitions and visions. The most popular social network is ambitiously venturing into the world of virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in the future. He predicts that the camera on the phone in connection with Facebook's interactive filters and together with VR-glasses will become the new standard of communication, and our socializing with friends is moving to the Facebook Spaces platform.
The red thread of Facebook this year F8 developer conference was virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Last but not least, it is Facebook already indicated this direction with the purchase of the company Oculus and their Rift technologies in 2014. The platform resonates the most Facebook Spaces, which enables socializing with friends in the virtual world, which Facebook sees as the future place to hang out with friends.
In the virtual world, we will turn into avatar, which will be easy took over our appearance and participate in group conversations, socialize, watch videos/photos together with other avatars, create... Inside Facebook's virtual world, we will even be able to take a selfie, as the avatar will mimicked our facial expressions.
The platform is currently in beta phase testing, and is based on a headset Oculus Rift. Because Facebook wants to create The VR ecosystem, bigger than its own platform, has built an app development platform for third-party developers React VR.
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Of course, the transition to new technologies will not happen overnight. The leap into augmented reality begins with interactives photo filters. That Facebook has squinted hard at its mortal enemy Snapchat, it's no secret. With this purpose, he introduced the platform Camera Effects to develop filters for external developers. It also tackles issues with bots. Chatbots they have spread across Facebook's platform and since they are hard to find, Facebook Messenger will get it two updates, which will eliminate this problem, namely Discovery (she will suggest which bots to add) and QR code reader. With Messenger, with the help of the digital assistant M, it is now possible, among other things, via delivery.com also order food at home.
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