In the Facebook’s annual developers conference, formally called F8 held at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, the company unveiled its vision for the future by launching new tools and technologies.
From introducing new VR apps to chat bots to offering offline mode in Instagram, Facebook has envisioned its future in the right digital realm.
Here are the top 5 announcements from the conference:
Facebook in VR
Facebook’s first virtual reality app named Spaces, will let you hang out with your friends in an interactive way. Users can create themselves as avatar-based characters and invite friends to hang out with them in a VR world. The beta version of the app is currently available for two headgears - Oculus Rift and Touch.
Facebook’s take on Slack and Microsoft
Workplace by Facebook was a corporate app to compete with the likes of Slack and Microsoft Teams. After exiting its beta version in October 2016, now the company has integrated the app with Microsoft Onedrive, Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and Quip. The latest update allows users to interact with bots in group chats as well as in individual chats and can even @mention a bot to launch a task or workflow.
Instagram gets Offline Mode
Facebook acquired photo-sharing app Instagram now gets the offline mode where users can view previously loaded content in Instagram’s feed. In addition, actions like commenting, liking and unfollowing can be done even in offline mode which will go through when they reconnect.
Building 8 that lets you type by reading your brain
Last year, Facebook has launched a research team called Building 8, under Regina Daugh for developing hardware products. Now, the team is currently working on a system that can type 100 words per minutes by just interpreting human brain without any hardware implants. Another project is aimed at making people hear through their skins.
Tether-tenna to provide internet during disaster
With the Telecom Infra Project, Face has developed a small helicopter named Tether-tenna, which can be deployed during emergencies or disaster to provide internet access. "This is still in the early stages of development and lots of work is needed to ensure that it will be able operate autonomously for months at a time, but we're excited about the progress so far," said Maguire.
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