Drawing on the purchase of the startup Oculus Rift last year, the social network prepares an iOS and Android application of virtual reality on smartphones, according to ‘ Wall Street Journal
(Boursier.com.) – The head of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is betting heavily on the development of virtual reality, he sees as the logical evolution of the picture and the video.
According to the ‘Wall Street Journal’, the social network is working on an iOS and Android application which allows the reading of “spherical” videos, through which users can change the angle of view by tilting and turning their phone.
A virtual reality helmet sold early 2016
The purpose of Facebook is to generalize the applications of “quasi” virtual reality to encourage its users to adopt ultimately the Oculus Rift headset, which will provide further experience “VR” (Virtual Reality “).
The project is still in its infancy and so far, no launch date has been set, however precise the US business daily.
In March 2014, Facebook bought the Oculus Rift manufacturer of headsets for two billion dollars in cash and stock, having crunched the social network of photos, Instagram, for half of that amount. The first virtual reality headset Oculus Rift baptized, to be marketed in the first quarter 2016.
In July, Zuckerberg had found that virtual reality and immersion in 3D were “the logical continuation of the video and the photo, “and they will not be restricted in the future only to video games.
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However, Facebook is not the only one to get excited about the Virtual Reality (“VR”). The Japanese Sony, 2016 provides a virtual reality helmet for its Playstation console. The Korean Samsung, in partnership with Oculus Rift already sells a helmet suitable for smartphones of its brand. HTC has also designed a helmet, the HTC Vivid, which has no release date yet.
Meanwhile, Microsoft announced an augmented reality headset, HoloLens, not to mention Google, with its Google Glass.
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