{"id":102535,"date":"2015-03-25T18:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=102535"},"modified":"2015-03-25T18:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:14:35","slug":"facebook-unveils-vr-ready-spherical-videos-for-newsfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=102535","title":{"rendered":"Facebook unveils VR-ready &#8216;spherical videos&#8217; for Newsfeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-content\">The next frontier for Facebook isn&#8217;t video, it&#8217;s &#8220;spherical videos&#8221; \u2014 immersive, 360-degree videos that work right in the Newsfeed.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new feature on stage at the social network&#8217;s annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Spherical videos are 360-degree videos that will run natively in Newsfeed and are shot with 24 high-resolution cameras, Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to embeds in Newsfeed, spherical videos will also be compatible with virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift and Samsung&#8217;s Gear VR.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg says attendees will be able to experience spherical videos at the conference in its &#8220;Teleportation Stations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Facebook purchased Oculus, the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, last year for $2 billion, many wondered what the social network would do with the platform. Spherical videos are the first glimpse of what&#8217;s to come for the company&#8217;s VR ambitions.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next frontier for Facebook isn&#8217;t video, it&#8217;s &#8220;spherical videos&#8221; \u2014 immersive, 360-degree videos that work right in the Newsfeed. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new feature on stage at the social network&#8217;s annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Spherical videos are 360-degree videos that will run natively in Newsfeed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-102535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}