Via Spherical Videos, is Oculus VR the Future of Facebook's News Feed?

With Oculus, Zuckerberg and Co. placed a big bet on the future, thinking that people will be able to check content not just on computers, laptops, phones and tablets — but VR headsets.

At the first day of Facebook’s f8 conference, a haven for developers, Mark Zuckerberg introduced something that could be the future of News Feed: spherical videos.

Zuckerberg, in his keynote address, discussed these 360-degree videos that will be coming to News Feeds soon:

You can move around in it and you can change your viewing angle. This is a new and much more immersive type of content. It’s not something that you just consume passively. You’re actually interacting with it and you feel like you’re there.

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