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Facebook Spaces — Facebook's social Virtual Reality platform is here!
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@rrhoover Having just reread it, it's remarkable how close we're getting especially with Haptic gloves/suits in development too (by other companies)
@rrhoover I was literally about to post that, but not in a positive way :)
@rrhoover Yeah, but with one big difference: pseudonymity. A key aspect of the OASIS was that people could be anyone they wanted to be in VR. Facebook is intent on you staying "you." How else will they monetize you?
Super excited to get friends and family excited about VR without them needing to own an expensive VR setup.
Exciting experiment in VR by Facebook.
'Spaces represents the first .1% of Facebook’s vision for Social VR'. Eventually, Facebook wants to be a Google in the VR space...
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the execution of this vision is something to marvel at .... amazing integration of real and virtual back to real
Seems really cool. I like how natural it came across as an enhancement, it turned saying happy birthday into an event. I'm curious to see if and how this will be adopted outside of tech communities.
That's FB vs Snap in essence.
Facebook = alternative reality
Snap = augmented reality.
Peculiar shit.
Looks great and I'm excited to use a variation of this in the future but I can't see people using this in its current form #FacebookSpaces
It's great, amazing and I loved it. Excited to play with this. I would say it's a great experiment in VR by Facebook.
This is what VR needed to get everyone onboard. Let's see how much more time people will spend here lol.
It's amazing now, in how many ways FB users can induce their depression, sadness, anxiety, low self-esteem, loneliness, isolation, envy, jealousy and sleep disturbance! ;)
Can't wait to try this - what an amazing opportunity to complement / enhance our interactions in real live!
The Singularity is moving closer each day. The exciting part of this technology advancement is the ability to network and engage from a distance virtually. The concerning part is spending so much time in VR that you forget that your REAL world is one that needs you most.
Had the opportunity to try this yesterday at F8. Wow. I felt there was a lot to explore, but only got to try a few things in the 5 minute demo. They still have a long way to go to work out design and scale, but I'm excited to see where Facebook will take this next. As they made clear in so many of their demos this week, they are just getting started...
Isn't this just Facebook's implementation of VR Chat? Hopefully it doesn't become what that platform is, a bunch of kids playing around with memes.
Not sure how I feel about this one. I admire the will to push VR forward, but not sure that people will start buying headsets because they want to use spaces (as it is now*) .
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