Facebook is working on Virtual Reality Newsfeeds which works with Virtual Reality Headsets
Yes. If you dont know, you could watch a 360 degree video on Star Wars which was uploaded in Facebook
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Immersive 360 ExperienceSpeed across the Jakku desert from Star Wars: The Force Awakens with this immersive 360 experience created exclusively for Facebook.
Posted by Star Wars on Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Facebook themselves says that its very keen on creating a platform that lets people share 360 degree videos and 3D videos. Then they would like to optimise these 360 degree videos for Virtual Reality Headsets for an immersive virtual reality experience
Lets think of how this will be useful to you. Think of your friend who is in an exotic location and she is holding something like a selfie stick and instead of a selfie he/she shoots 360 degree videos and publishes the same to their Facebook page. So you will be viewing a 360 degree view of what she is seeing on your Smartphone or on your VR headset/ Virtual Reality Headset which provides an immersive experience, instead of the current 2D pictures that are being shared on all our newsfeed.
You will be literally seeing what your friend just saw and Imagine of all that excitement. It would be amazing and our social networks will be really social.
Problems or Opportunities as we say
The problems is that the 360 degree cameras currently in market costs more than 300$ and are a bit expensive at the moment. The technology is still in its development stages and we could hope that they soon will be affordable as how computers and smartphones evolved through time. Once they does we could all see our friends posting terrfice 360 degree videos of many locations and honestly, I am a bit excited about this as I myself loves to travel.
More 360 degree videos
Redbull was one of the first companies to shoot and post a 360 degree video. It was a video on F1 racing and I saw it in youtube and now its embedded below.
F1 in 360You spin me round! Get an on-board, 360° view of a lap of Rudskogen in Norway in 2012.
Posted by Infiniti Red Bull Racing on Wednesday, September 23, 2015
360 degree Underwater videos of Dolphins.
Swimming with dolphins in 360 virtual reality video — The Dolp...Swim with wild dolphins in 360 video!! Just click and drag or move your phone for the full experience! Special thanks to Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project
Posted by RYOT on Wednesday, September 23, 2015
With a VR Headset it would really seem that we are swimming with them
Google, has already enabled 360 degree videos on youtube and if you dont know how to access them on your smartphone , please read our article below
My VR Goggles
"Delivering Virtual Reality Experiences with your Smartphone"
