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04-21-2017, 11:31 AM
What it's actually like to hang out in Facebook Spaces
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Virtual reality seems cool, but what can you actually do when you're in it?*
Quite a lot, it turns out.*
On April 18, Facebook released a 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) experience called Facebook Spaces. Paired with an Oculus Rift, Spaces allows users to hang out with friends in a 360-degree virtual reality world and share 3D videos and experiences.*
SEE ALSO: Facebook's first social VR app is cool — but there's a problem (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)
Unfortunately for anyone wanting to play around in this digital paradise, however, there's a pretty hefty entrance fee. A Rift and corresponding touch controllers will set you back around $600, and that doesn't even include the powerful, expensive computer required to run the thing.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/20/video-facebook-spaces-social-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Videos (http://mashable.com/category/videos/?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), Virtual Reality (http://mashable.com/category/virtual-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Vr (http://mashable.com/category/social-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Facebook Spaces (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-spaces/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/kcNXJ8u5JXI
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Virtual reality seems cool, but what can you actually do when you're in it?*
Quite a lot, it turns out.*
On April 18, Facebook released a 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) experience called Facebook Spaces. Paired with an Oculus Rift, Spaces allows users to hang out with friends in a 360-degree virtual reality world and share 3D videos and experiences.*
SEE ALSO: Facebook's first social VR app is cool — but there's a problem (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)
Unfortunately for anyone wanting to play around in this digital paradise, however, there's a pretty hefty entrance fee. A Rift and corresponding touch controllers will set you back around $600, and that doesn't even include the powerful, expensive computer required to run the thing.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/20/video-facebook-spaces-social-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Videos (http://mashable.com/category/videos/?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), Virtual Reality (http://mashable.com/category/virtual-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Vr (http://mashable.com/category/social-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Facebook Spaces (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-spaces/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/kcNXJ8u5JXI