{"id":8578,"date":"2017-08-04T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/04\/news-2351\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:45:09","slug":"news-2351","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/04\/news-2351\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Facebook Thinks Virtual Reality Should Be About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:04:20 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, I stopped by Facebook’s offices in New York to try out their virtual reality product, Spaces<\/a>. The experience was both entirely new and eerily familiar. It’s strange to morph into a digital, cartoon-like avatar, but Spaces also feels<\/i> like part of Facebook, which I’ve used almost daily for nearly a decade. Still, I wasn’t convinced it was going to become a regular part of my life, the way that Facebook’s News Feed has.<\/p>\n

Inside the platform, you can make Messenger calls, draw things, hang out in different virtual settings, and view the same Facebook content that’s inside the app or on the website. What’s interesting about Spaces is that unlike other virtual reality apps or games, it’s fairly accessible to people without a headset. For example, you can make Messenger calls to people who aren’t in virtual reality even while you are.<\/p>\n

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