Facebook released its first VR-application - Facebook 360
News Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Eighteen months ago, Facebook began to support 360-degree video, a year ago - spherical photography. Now the company has released an application for easy viewing of the accumulated content - Facebook 360, which is not available to all users.
Facebook allows you to view 360 VR-content selected based on your subscriptions and posts in the friends list. To run the program, you will need to login to Facebook and helmet Gear VR virtual reality. On the other helmets and VR-glasses app is not running.
Facebook 360 fulfills four simple functions:
- VR-groups content shared by your friends or posted on the pages you follow;
- stores the content of the records that you have saved in Facebook;
- places your 360-degree photos and video;
- It allows you to search for any VR-content uploaded to Facebook by other users.
All entries in Facebook support 360 huskies and reactions, they also can repost from the application to your page to Facebook.
Download the app can be of Oculus Store or site Oculus.
Recall, Gear VR - virtual reality helmet, released for Samsung smartphones. Smartphones from other manufacturers are not compatible with it.