360-Degree Photos , Upcoming Dominating Feature of Facebook
Facebook, the popular socializing website has recently disclosed that they will shortly incorporate support for 360-degree images to its newsfeed.
The ingenious 360-degree photos will work quite identical to that of Facebook’s 360-degree videos. You can conveniently alter the view of your image by just dragging your finger or a cursor, if in case you are working on a browser round the screen or holding your handset at a distinct outlook.
The forthcoming feature will sport images clicked with 360-degree snapper, similar to Rioch’s Theta S and also the panoramic shots captured on Smartphones. In addition, just like their video correlatives, the 360-degree images can also be viewed from Samsung’s Gear VR headsets.
As far as the working of this upcoming feature is concerned, you just need to capture a panorama image as you usually would over your Android or iOS device and upload it to the social website. And from there your friends and contacts having VR headsets can download the Oculus 360 photo app to move around the image by dragging and touching the picture. Hence, if you click an amazing panorama image on a beautiful beach day, your friends can adjust it to show that they were with you.
In addition, the social media tech giant also plans to offer some changes to the Oculus mobile app. The app is expected to be soon updated with a latest ‘what’s new ‘element, designed to target the current videos as well as recent games.
Facebook also intends to renew the layout of its Oculus home screen over Gear VR to make it more effortless to locate recently downloaded things.
According to Facebook, the Oculus-fueled Gear VR has merely been out for around six months; however, the company believes that it’s already outpaced many of their primary plans. Despite, we aren’t sure about the exact number of VR headsets that the South Korean electronics mammoth has delivered since its launch, Facebook claims that over million users have used the Gear VR headset preceding month.
Alongside revealing their plans, Facebook  also unveiled some latest details about Gear VR content. As per Facebook, currently there are around 250 apps for the VR headset along with 21 games that originally introduced for the Gear, however they are now also available for the Oculus Rift headset. submit tech guest post
