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04-19-2017, 04:22 PM
What's missing from Facebook's vision of a VR future
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On Tuesday, Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) doubled down on its commitment to pushing social media into virtual reality (http://mashable.com/category/virtual-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) ("doubling down" is literally the language they used).*
Stalking the stage at F8, Mark Zuckerberg, and later the company's head of social VR (http://mashable.com/2017/04/17/facebook-f8-social-vr-never/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Rachel Franklin, laid out the next phase of Facebook's vision for getting you to take your Likes, emoji reactions, and personal connections into VR using tools like the Oculus Rift. **
SEE ALSO: I spent 2 weeks socializing in VR, and I saw the future (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/virtual-reality-social-networks-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
That enhanced commitment took the form of Facebook Spaces (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/facebook-spaces-virtual-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), an app the company demonstrated on stage and released to Oculus Rift users right after the event ended. To introduce us to the app, a video shows people interacting from their home Rift set-ups to communicate via Facebook Spaces avatars in VR.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/19/facebook-spaces-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about F8 (http://mashable.com/category/f8/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mark Zuckerberg (http://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Oculus (http://mashable.com/category/oculus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Facebook Space (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-space/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/0sF2Uq3-bVs
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On Tuesday, Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) doubled down on its commitment to pushing social media into virtual reality (http://mashable.com/category/virtual-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) ("doubling down" is literally the language they used).*
Stalking the stage at F8, Mark Zuckerberg, and later the company's head of social VR (http://mashable.com/2017/04/17/facebook-f8-social-vr-never/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Rachel Franklin, laid out the next phase of Facebook's vision for getting you to take your Likes, emoji reactions, and personal connections into VR using tools like the Oculus Rift. **
SEE ALSO: I spent 2 weeks socializing in VR, and I saw the future (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/virtual-reality-social-networks-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
That enhanced commitment took the form of Facebook Spaces (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/facebook-spaces-virtual-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), an app the company demonstrated on stage and released to Oculus Rift users right after the event ended. To introduce us to the app, a video shows people interacting from their home Rift set-ups to communicate via Facebook Spaces avatars in VR.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/19/facebook-spaces-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about F8 (http://mashable.com/category/f8/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mark Zuckerberg (http://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Oculus (http://mashable.com/category/oculus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Facebook Space (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-space/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/0sF2Uq3-bVs