What's
missing from Facebook's vision of a VR future
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On Tuesday,
Facebook doubled down on its commitment to pushing social media into
virtual reality ("doubling down" is literally the language they used).*
Stalking the stage at F8, Mark Zuckerberg, and later the company's head of
social VR, 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. **
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That enhanced commitment took the form of
Facebook Spaces, 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.*
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