Facebook Announces Next Steps for Improving Virtual Reality Experiences

Facebook has announced its latest steps to improve the use of virtual reality on the social networking platform.

Facebook has announced its latest steps to improve the use of virtual reality on the social networking platform. For one, Facebook announced its 360 degree video streaming technology is coming to Samsung’s Gear VR mobile virtual reality headset, which will allow 360 degree videos posted on Facebook to ‘look clearer and play faster.’ The technology will come to the Gear VR in the ‘next few weeks.’

A Facebook blog post described the technology:

It’s a more efficient way of delivering 360 videos, showing only the pixels you’re actually looking at in the highest quality, instead of delivering the entire 360 video in high resolution.

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