Thursday, January 26, 2017

Facebook is adopting a new pattern of virtual reality – The World

Convinced that ” virtual reality has the potential to become the platform more social, Facebook has made it one of its main axes of development.

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To illustrate the message announcing the hiring of Hugo Barra via Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has chosen an image of a virtual meeting with his future collaborator.

In a response to this message, Hugo Barra announced that he would join the company of Palo Alto, ” in a few months “. Two days earlier, he had announced his decision to leave his position as vice-president of Xiaomi ” for a new adventure “ to return in the Silicon Valley. While stressing that he had previously take the time to de-stress after three years spent mainly in China and India, ” began to affect [his] health.”

At its annual conference for developers in April 2016, Mark Zuckerberg has built the virtual reality and augmented reality as one of the three main axes of development of Facebook for the ten years to come. the ” I think that virtual reality has the potential to become the platform more social, because you really have the impression of being with another person “, he argued. A sign of the interest of Facebook in this sector, the purchase of Oculus Rift for two billion dollars (1.86 billion euros) from 2014 has given rise to the commercial launch of the helmet Oculus Rift and controllers Oculus Touch in 2016.

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