2016 was supposed to be the year of virtual reality, but the market has yet to fully react to the release of two big titles: the Oculus Rift, developed by Oculus and Facebook, and the Vive VR, developed by HTC and Valve. .
We’ll have to wait for the release of PlayStation VR, which is scheduled for next week, before we can get a real assessment of the first year of virtual reality. But Facebook didn’t expect that, and at last night’s Oculus Connect it presented its vision of the social network in virtual reality.
We’ve already seen a virtual reality concept on Facebook, and here’s the progress the site’s development team has made. You can see that the models have improved, representing the participants much better.
But that’s not all: it is now possible to play, consult the social network and socially share the viewing of a video with your friends. People without helmet can also join the conversation via video call on Facebook Messenger. You can even take selfies with your avatar.
In short, in just 1 year, virtual reality concepts are evolving at a dizzying pace and it shows us what it is. the future it may look like. It’s still hard to get an idea of all this because this technology has to be experienced to truly understand it.
Therefore, it will be necessary to solve one of its biggest problems: the prices of quality headphones are definitely high, making the experience difficult for the public to access. Pray for generalization to come soon, as virtual reality has enormous potential.
