Facebook has opened a new department for the development of virtual reality to social networking – TASS

NEW YORK, February 22. / Corr. Kirill Volkov TASS /. Facebook has opened a new department, which will deal with studies related to the development of three-dimensional virtual reality technology in the Internet space, including on the social networks. This is stated in a statement posted Sunday on the company’s website

“We have created a separate team that will focus exclusively on the research field of social communication in the virtual space,” -. Said in a statement. As pointed out in Facebook, a new department “will explore how people can communicate and share content with the help of modern virtual technologies”.

The new development will be conducted in conjunction with the South Korean company Samsung, which introduced the so-called 2014 ” helmet virtual reality “called Gear VR, as well as with the company Oculus VR. The latest Facebook acquired in the spring of 2014 for $ 2 billion, along with the rights to the technology to another similar device -. “Helmet” Oculus Rift

“In the future, virtual reality technology will make possible entirely new types of communication, – told representatives social networks -. for example, friends who live in different parts of the world, will be able to spend time together, feeling as if they are next to each other “

at the same time on Facebook stressed that their work on the creation. virtual communications are in a very early stage, and the company will have to solve a number of technical problems.

The fact that Facebook has set a task to create and distribute a new kind of online communication, it became known last summer. “Virtual reality is at the center of our interests, because it has a huge information potential”, – said then Zuckerberg

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