Facebook's Virtual Reality-Style Ads Are Here With Big Brands on Board

Nestlé and AT&T test 360-degree video

If you were wondering what Facebook's $2 billion Oculus Rift might mean for advertisers, we may have just been given a sneak peek. Today, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company debuted the first virtual reality-style video ads for AT&T, Nestle, Mondelez and Samsung, among others.

In September, Facebook rolled out a video creation tool that let publishers and brands like Vice and Mountain Dew post 360-degree clips organically to their pages. Now that tool has been wrapped into a new ad format that shows up as sponsored posts in newsfeeds.

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