VR,AR and AI Digest of F8

Facebook Developer Conference | May 2018

Oculus Go

With the launch of Oculus Go Facebook is taking VR mainstream. Oculus Go is an standalone all-in-one virtual reality headset through which one can immerse into different experiences whenever and wherever you want without the hassle of wires and computers.

For more information and to buy one https://www.oculus.com/go/

Taking VR experiences mainstream

Not only the hardware but also Facebook announced 1000+ apps and games that accompany the Oculus Go. The three main experiences that initially helps taking VR mainstream are Oculus tv, Oculus rooms and Oculus venues.

Oculus TV

Oculus TV is a virtual home theater and a hub for non-VR video apps. That includes services like Netflix, Imagine your smart TV inside the VR headset where you can watch movies and other programs in solo or with your friends on a massive screen from a huge seating area.

Oculus Rooms

Oculus Rooms is social space (personalised home) in VR. Where you can invite your friends over to play tabletop games, watch TV and movies, listen to music, share photos or jump into other apps together. You can also customise your room with the furniture and styles of your choice, and decorate the walls with photos from Facebook.

Oculus Venues

Oculus venues allow you to experience performances and other events in virtual reality. It puts you in the front row for concerts, sport events, comedy shows and more. It lets you to join thousands of others to share the experience and meet other fans in the crowd, or watch in solo mode from a box seat high above the crowd.

Socialising AR & VR

Apart from Oculus Go and the apps, Facebook also introduced many other features in the current line of their products right from Messenger, Instagram and of course Facebook itself.

3D Objects

This lets companies to create 3D objects of their products and let users to share it with their friends and experience it real time using AR. This would be a great tool for marketers and product makers.

3D Photos

3D photos in Facebook lets user to create in depth photos right from their mobile camera.

AR in messenger

AR and VR is about making the user experience things better wherever and whenever, AR in messenger bring the product launch and interactions a way better.

Apart from the AR and VR Facebook unveiled many experiences with help of AI. Few notable things are,

Translate

This lets you to communicate with billions of users on Facebook despite the language barrier. Those sentence formation depending upon each language was awesome.

Point Cloud Reconstruction

Like a Sherlock Holmes mind map point cloud reconstruction lets you to reconstruct your memories from the photos available, lets you to immerse yourself back in the time/memory.

And also the AI has helped to evolve the Hand Tracking in VR controllers, Visual Immersion and 3D reconstruction of the environments.

These are few of the updated from F8 which caught my attention to learn more and explore visit https://www.f8.com/

This month is pretty excited as F8, Google I/O and many events are lining up.

Cheers!!