Facebook to add 360 degree videos to news feed

While Facebook led development for 360-degree capability, the team collaborated with its Oculus division in order to create Facebook’s first consumer-facing VR product, the company’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, told The Verge.

Such videos are created utilizing a particular set of cameras that handle to seize all 360 levels of a scene on the similar time.

The mobile user can swipe 360-degree video on Facebook or moving one’s phone allows the user to view the content from different angles.

Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has repeatedly described virtual reality as the next big “computing platform” after mobile devices, and believes that it will one day become a part of daily life for billions of people.

In adherence to its goal of infusing our News Feeds with more and more immersive content, Facebook has introduced a new feature named 360 video.

“We’re excited to take it a step further with 360-degree video”.

A number of companies are already sharing exclusive content in this new format, including Disney and Lucasfilm, which released an interactive video preview of the upcoming movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens“.

The world’s largest social network said on Wednesday that it would start bringing the immersive video experience to the Facebook News Feed. In order to take on YouTube, Facebook will look towards aggressive expansion of its footprint in the video domain.

This means that you will now be able to share 360-degree videos of your fun vacation with all your friends online.

Users on smartphones can experience it even better by tilting their devices around to explore the various angles, although Facebook notes that this is only for Android at the moment, with iOS support coming in the next few months.

Special equipment is needed to shoot videos in 360, so sadly, users won’t be uploading their own 360-degree videos anytime soon.