Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a presentation in honor of the first day of the Facebook F8 conference for developers. Themes of the presentation were updates to Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as well as the new VR-headset Oculus Go. Let's talk about everything in more detail.
In the social network, the function for dating will appear. It was called Dating Home. It will be optional, and you can activate it by clicking on the heart icon in the Facebook application. Mark Zuckerberg said that the function is designed to seek long and serious relationships, and not for passing acquaintances.
Another new feature, Watch Party, allows you to enjoy content with friends, commenting on what you see on the air. In addition, Facebook will have the votes "for" and "against" and change the way that comments are displayed for publications.
Third-party developers will have access to Stories on Facebook and Instagram. For example, you can add a song from Spotify to your Stories.
And Facebook has also provided a function to search for blood donors. Now you can register in the social network as a donor.
The application of another social network that belongs to Facebook will receive an updated section with recommendations, but this is not the most important thing. The main thing is the video chat function. We can make video calls to Instagram.
As mentioned above, we can add materials to Stories from other applications and services. Adding a song to Stories, you give your friends the opportunity to find it in another service. Also, developers will be able to create their own AR filters.
Messenger
The Facebook Messenger application will receive a new design and a camera with augmented reality function. There will be night mode, dynamic effects in the dialog window and configurable chats. In addition, a built-in translation function will appear. At the moment we do not know which languages will be supported.
We talked about the growing security in WhatsApp. Strangely, but shortly before the conference, the founder of WhatsApp, Jan Kum, left the company due to the weakening of the safety of his product. Zuckerberg mentioned him at the presentation and thanked him for his work.
And if we talk about a new one, WhatsApp will have a group video chat and support stickers from third-party developers. Most importantly, Facebook decided to adapt WhatsApp to the business. The new features will allow companies to work with large amounts of messages with great convenience.
Oculus Go
The new VR-headset Oculus Go went on sale on the first day of the conference. It costs 199 dollars, and all visitors to the conference will receive it as a gift. It is believed that it will become much more popular than the already available headset from Oculus, which costs 399 dollars and requires a powerful PC for work.
The new headset comes with 1000 available applications and Oculus TV, which allows you to enjoy video in virtual reality. The service was created with the support of Netflix, Hulu, ESPN and Showtime. Users of the headset will be able to follow the live broadcasts of sports and music events in virtual reality. And Facebook started working with the producers of board games, in order to transfer them to VR.
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