Facebook New Feature Lets You Share 360 Degree Images Taken With Your Phone

Facebook wants to make it easier for users to share 360 ​​degree photos. Now with the new feature, you will not necessarily need a 360-degree camera to share a 360-degree photo on Facebook.

On Thursday, Facebook released a new feature called "360 pictures", a new supported format for uploading smartphone panoramas and images with certain 360-degree cameras and photo apps. Facebook will automatically convert these flat images into interactive images that you see in the state in full screen by tilting your smartphone using the Facebook apps for iOS and Android.

Once you have uploaded a panoramic photo taken on an Android or iOS device, or upload a 360-degree view taken using a 360 photo app or 360 camera, your friends can navigate around the pictures marked with a compass icon by moving a finger or by tilting the phone.

Facebook Is Working On A Virtual Reality App

New reports in the tech world show that Facebook is working on a new virtual reality application that allow you to watch videos to 360 degrees on your phone.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Facebook is still in the "early stages" of development of the application, but it is ultimately planned to work on iOS and Android. At this point, details are scarce and there is no word as to when the application can be released.

The effort of $ 2 billion following the acquisition of the company Oculus VR last year Facebook. It is not too surprising, as product manager Chris Cox Facebook in February said the company was playing with the creation of VR applications. CEO Mark Zuckerberg also talked up RVs during a Q & A this summer, calling it the "next big platform computing and communication after the phones."

"In the future, we will probably still carry phones in our pockets, but I think we will also have glasses on our faces that can help throughout the day and give us the opportunity to share our experiences with those we like completely new and immersive ways that are not possible today, "said Zuckerberg.

As noted by the Journal, coming VR Facebook app would be less immersive than what you get from a Oculus Rift, but could help push more people in VR.

Oculus chief scientist Michael Abrash earlier this year presented a vision of what VR can be in the future - and it's pretty cool.

Your hands will possibly also capable of VR as they are in the real world, he predicted. Visual and audio will get better, and virtual worlds will seem real. You will be able to see your body when you look down and wearing the real world in VR, you can, for example, pick up your coffee cup or using your computer and the mouse without removing your headphones.

The news comes before the Oculus developer conference in Los Angeles next week.

Meanwhile, the Sleepy Hollow virtual reality experience, created for the Oculus Rift, won an Emmy for this weekend "user experience and visual design," marking the first time the awards have honored a working VR.