The selfie that it took Mark Zuckerberg, ceo of Facebook, along with his wife and dog while he was in virtual reality. His wife called using the video calling from Facebook Messenger.
FacebookSAN JOSE, California — six months Ago, Mark Zuckerberg shared that Oculus, a unit of Facebook, worked on creating more social experiences within a virtual reality. This Thursday, during the speech of the executive president at the conference Oculus Connect 3 (OC3), we saw the most up to date version of what could be the future.
Using glasses Oculus Rift, Zuckerberg, from the platform of the event in this city, joined the avatars of some colleagues of Facebook in VR who virtually were at the conference. Then the avatar of Zuckerberg was transported to the offices of the company in Menlo Park, and then invited them to his home in Palo Alto to see his dog Beast.
And while they were all interacting in the house of the businessman, not only joined the wife of Zuckerberg at the time using a video call on Messenger but that also took a selfie in VR.
The virtual reality, clearly, will not only be for the games. It will be to meet with friends and colleagues, and share.
But beyond the social presence, we are watching how the vision of Facebook, following its purchase Oculus in 2014 for US$ 2,000 million, is taking shape. The company will integrate its apps, and at the same time its millions of users, within the platform Oculus.
This is because the other element that collates a social presence in virtual reality, added Zuckerberg, is to be able to use the apps within the experience itself without having to leave it.
“One of the things that I think is crazy in 2016 is that our mobile phones, the most important tool in computing today, they are organized by the apps and not the people,” said Zuckerberg. “This is not how we process the world and it is not like we think”.
therefore, the social platform for virtual reality that they are creating Facebook and Oculus will not be organized as well, according to the executive, because this is not how we live.
“virtual reality is the perfect platform to put the people first, due to the presence, because if one feels that is really there with the people one can create the space you want to have,” said Zuckerberg. “But most important, have the space to explore and do more things together in the face if they have to be changing from one app to another.”
Zuckerberg said that while not all experiences will be social, it is important to take the social aspect into account when developing products for the virtual reality.
The executive added that Facebook has already invested US$ 250 million in the development of apps for the platform, and think to invest US$ 250 million more.
As part of the social elements new that we will see in Oculus, the unit announced the software Avatar Editor so that you can create your own avatar for the virtual reality and they also said that they will create rooms called Oculus Rooms where up to eight people may join in an Oculus Party. The software is already available for developers. Oculus Rooms and Oculus Party will arrive on the Samsung Gear VR in the coming weeks, and the Rift in 2017.
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