While companies like Apple prefer to focus their attention on augmented reality, the Facebook , among large technology companies, the one that has most embraced the trend of virtual reality starting, for example, with the purchase of Oculus in 2014. Within this technique, the social networking giant has gradually updated its application to introduce small but important technology-related resources. Today one of those days.
Uncle Mark's company is adding to Facebook for iOS and Android the possibility of capturing 360 images directly from the application, eliminating the need to use third-party apps for this type of task. To do this, just select the option âPhoto 360â in the sharing menu positioned at the top of your News Feed from, the app itself guides you to move your phone around the scene and capture the scene.
Panoramas, then, can be shared on your timeline and viewed in the way we already know if youâre on a mobile device, just by moving it so that the screen becomes a âwindowâ of the capture and making the gesture of the page to zoom. In addition, you can tag your friends in these panoramas, include them in albums, post in groups or even set one of them as your cover photo.
The new feature is already available in the latest update of Facebook's mobile apps, and should appear for all users in the coming days.
via TechCrunch
