Facebook previews its first social VR product, Facebook Spaces

Facebook demoed its first full-fledged virtual reality product at its annual developer conference, F8.

Tim Peterson on April 18, 2017

Last year at its annual developer conference, Facebook teased what the social network could look like in virtual reality. On Tuesday at this year’s F8, the company showed what the social network will look like in virtual reality through a preview of its first social VR product, Facebook Spaces. Watch the demo below.

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Tim Peterson

Tim Peterson, Third Door Media’s Social Media Reporter, has been covering the digital marketing industry since 2011. He has reported for Advertising Age, Adweek and Direct Marketing News. A born-and-raised Angeleno who graduated from New York University, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He has broken stories on Snapchat’s ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar’s attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon’s ad-tech stack; analyzed YouTube’s programming strategy, Facebook’s ad-tech ambitions and ad blocking’s rise; and documented digital video’s biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed’s branded video production process and Snapchat Discover’s ad load six months after launch. He has also developed tools to monitor brands’ early adoption of live-streaming apps, compare Yahoo’s and Google’s search designs and examine the NFL’s YouTube and Facebook video strategies.

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