#facebook vr

Facebook and Oculus have teamed up to create a Facebook Horizon, a multiplayer virtual reality world for the Oculus Quest and Rift platforms. Facebook Horizon VR platform that allows users to socialize with friends and others by building their own environments, games, or explore worlds created by others. With the introduction of Facebook Horizon, it has also been announced that Facebook Spaces and Oculus Rooms will be shut down by October 25. Facebook Horizon will also be launching an open beta in early 2020, with sign-ups now ongoing. On the second day of Facebook's F8 Conference, the company focused on key talks about its investments in AI and AR/VR. Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's Chief Technology Officer, discussed how a variety of products at Facebook utilizes AI. With their Codec Avatars, a feature that allows people to interact in real time using VR, Facebook stated that they're continuing to develop adaptive, physics-based models to reproduce and replicate human anatomy and automatically adapt to match an individual's appearance and motion. Facebook did say that the project is still in its research stages. Read more in our articles including "Facebook introduces social VR app Facebook Horizon" and "Day 2 of Facebook's F8 2019 Conference includes talks on AI and AR/VR".