Facebook presents at developer conference F8 "Facebook Spaces". With the app tailored to the Oculus Rift, Facebook is taking another step towards VR. You give your Facebook profile a face in the form of an avatar and explore the world. What exactly Facebook Spaces can do and why we do it tired of VR hype you will find out soon.
New top innovation?
Meet friends. create avatars. Mini Games and other gimmicks. For those of you who are still sitting in your chairs with your mouth shut, yes, we agree.
Facebook presents a mediocre Facebook Space and at the latest the combination of the social media giant with the big buzz word "Virtual Reality" triggers a hype.
But before that, of course, we want to give everyone the chance to form their own opinion. So what's behind the new Facebook app?
As already mentioned, Facebook Space is a concept developed for the Oculus Rift. in one Virtual Reality Setting you create your own comic-like avatar and meet friends online to chat and have fun. The latter should come up with a wide variety of integrated gimmicks, such as looking at pictures, taking selfies and drawing.
In the near future, Facebook Spaces will be made available to owners of the Oculus Rift as a beta version. Zuckerberg is also aware that this is not even one percent of all Facebook users. It is therefore possible to get through to your friends in the virtual world via Facebook Messenger video call even without a VR device. Facebook Spaces is attached to Facebook itself and aims to extend Facebook as a social network from the real to the virtual world.
Wii Sports Resort x Second Life
In plain language: Facebook Spaces extends something into the virtual world, which nobody finds cool anyway. Here's a classic problem: VR is cool, so let's do something with VR. In view of the hype, many ignore the fact that virtual reality must also have a purpose and is not (yet!) an end in itself. Of course you have to consider that Facebook Spaces is still in a very early stage and the basic idea of meeting people in a virtual world certainly has a future.
However, we don't find anything else new about this idea. Facebook Spaces looks like an absurd cross between Wii Sports Resort and Second Life - only with VR.
Ultimately, we can only hope that this project is in its very early stages and will grow a lot. Not only is the basic idea promising, but Facebook also has the necessary amounts of data and information to dominate the VR social niche. Ultimately, Facebook not only wants to serve the one percent Oculus Rift user, but also the remaining 99 percent. With regard to the future, despite long criticism: Keep it up, Mark!
