Facebook and teleportation, it’s for real? – MetroNews

Why do you want to accomplish the impossible in the real world, where we can get faster and better something in the virtual world? It is the dream that should caress Mike Schroapfer in charge of technological innovations at Facebook. Since acquiring the Oculus Rift company to the tune of $ 2 billion, he actually put his hand on the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, which allows immersion in a virtual world 360.

To cushion the product, it is proposed that is too good nor too futuristic. Facebook announced at the Web Summit in Dublin, be developing a system that would allow the user to have the feeling of teleport. Sensation. Point of actual physical teleportation then, but an illusion of geographical shift using the latest technology. Which is not bad at all.

A social network 3D

To achieve such a feat, we must first make the immersion as realistic as possible by recreating the conditions real. Mike Schroapfer said the trick in these terms: “Oculus will be able to fool your senses for they think that his virtual world is real, imitating the world around you in real time, and also giving people the ability to create anything they imagine in 3D “. Thus, the “real” life is imitated as closely in the virtual world to give you the feeling of belonging to the world visited. Your body and its movement in space will, for example to take into account in immersion.

The project is scheduled for 2025. Or ten years to recreate the illusion of real life and make it visitable behind a screen. To complete the project, Facebook has thought to integrate an interesting option: we can see the holders of the helmet as if they were truly facing you. And that’s where we understand the link between the headset and Facebook: the idea of ​​a social network in three dimensions could well emerge. What Snapchat relegated to the rank of application has-been in sum …

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