Facebook Inc To Make Teleportation Possible By 2025

He conceded that a few people may need to upgrade their PCs in order to use Oculus Rift.

On Tuesday at a press event at the Dublin Web Summit, Schroepfer said, “Facebook wants to build a device that allows you to be anywhere you want, with anyone, regardless of geographic boundaries”.

Physical teleportation doesn’t look likely any time soon – but Facebook could be about to do the next best thing, using hardcore VR tech. Facebook wants to offer you that something by 2025. This idea stems from Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of the Oculus Rift, which the company intends to bring to new heights beyond gaming. The technology used by the company stimulates your mind and gives you an experience which is similar to reality.

Movement, real-time feedback and lifelike interactions with virtual objects and people – mimicking a real world environment – aren’t easy problems to solve, but Facebook believes that Oculus Touch controllers (expected in Q2 2016) could ease a few of the burden. This will allow you to manipulate the experiences you would have gotten in the real world.

There’s not a nerd among us that hasn’t dreamed about the implications of teleportation on our lives. It will allow people to travel around the world inside their heads but they will be confined to just that. Reality headsets with giant cables are definitely not going to appeal to average users and the mobile point is a very valid one.

“Eventually, I think if augmented reality and virtual reality technologies are going to converge to align…if they end up merging into hardware that you can either wear all the time or at least you can carry around all the time, then there is no reason to think that it can’t supplant everything we already do with smartphones”. Also, the VR experience isn’t something that will come cheap as the Oculus technology which, as of now, is only confined to games costs around $500-700 each along with the headset costing around $1000. Compared to that, the chance to travel around the world, albeit virtually, will be even more expensive.