Facebook Announces Their New Vr Project

[Qedr]

Hello all,

Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook execs at this year’s F8 conference announced Facebook Spaces, a new VR experience using Oculus Rift, launch into a "very early" beta.

https://uploadvr.com/f8-2017-facebook-spaces-companys-social-vr-platform-launched-beta/

It’s been a year now since Facebook debuted new social VR features for its network using the Oculus Rift, and today it’s got more to share.

At its keynote speech at F8 this week Facebook debuted its social platform, Facebook Spaces, launched in “very early” Beta today.

The platform still looks very similar to the demo revealed at Oculus Connect 3 last year, but Facebook went far more in-depth with the systems behind it today. It showed its avatar creation system, allowing users to personalize their look. There was also a look at inviting friends and sharing 360 spaces together. The app will use the entire library of 360 content available on Facebook, as well as your own personal photos and videos.

If you want to meet someone in VR but don’t have a Rift, you can call into the space with a smartphone, and you’ll be able to share 2D photos, videos, and more.


More details are on: https://www.facebook.com/spaces

What do you think? It all starts to look very similar to people's lives from animation "WALL-E" - I mean people lost in virtual space, talking to each other remotely and not considering the fact that their bodies deteriorated and everything in real life became a misery.
I think everybody remembers Second Life, the MMO game that followed similar pattern (talking to each other in virtual space, creating avatars & surroundings on our own). The difference was that SL wouldn't have allowed such immersion because, well, it was only a game about virtual world and not exactly a virtual world as Facebook Spaces imo is trying to become. Of course there were some reports warning about people becoming addicted to that game, but remember how seriously Facebook is treated by many people nowadays - it became an inherent part of their lives and many don't even imagine life without it nowadays... so the danger is way bigger, I believe!

Other links (I've avoided any source with personal opinions of editors, so you can build your own):
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/18/f8-2017s-new-facebook-features-mark-zuckerberg-keynote-speech.html
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/everything-facebook-announced-at-f8/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontgomery/we-tried-out-facebooks-new-social-vr-app-at-f8?utm_term=.kgqlyMzmJ#.iiyBL1942

 

[Qedr]

Hi again,

The news I posted and the one posted by VC https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/facebook-working-smartphone-can-read-thoughts/ are unveiling a vision of total augmentation between human, computer and social media and adding an unattachable plane/layer into our reality. While some say this is great technological progress I'd say otherwise. Note that I'm neither a technology geek nor any sort of Amish. While VR technology has great potential - imagine surgeon training in VR which would allow them to polish their skills anytime and without risk - the way that Facebook tries to meld it with our minds is extremely dangerous from spiritual and social point of view. Let's face the facts how Facebook got into our lives and what is the outcome - see http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-social-media-make-unhappy-jealous-people-particularly-sad-copenhagen-university-study-a7490816.html

Facebook Spaces and mind-controlled interface - it does look like Matrix, doesn't it?

 

[Leviathan]

I personally think technology is fine exactly how it is now and wouldn't like it to advance any further. I don't see any need for virtual reality. Having a computer on the desk wasn't enough so we wanted one in our pocket, now a computer in our pocket isn't enough so we need one to wear. Next a computer to wear won't be enough so we need to have it inside us or be inside it.

Also, are people really that lazy that pushing a few buttons on a phone is too much work for them? They actually want to think words onto the screen? What a silly idea. I don't know about anyone else, but my thoughts are hardly coherent inside my mind. I need time to formulate them so they make sense to someone besides me. Are we going to see "um..." between every other word and "Oh crap, I didn't mean to think that. Take it away" on Facebook? It'll be a chore to read.

 

[mecca]

While VR technology has great potential - imagine surgeon training in VR which would allow them to polish their skills anytime and without risk - the way that Facebook tries to meld it with our minds is extremely dangerous from spiritual and social point of view.

I agree. Why can't we just have VR without hooking it up to our brain?

 

[rainerann]

I personally think technology is fine exactly how it is now and wouldn't like it to advance any further. I don't see any need for virtual reality. Having a computer on the desk wasn't enough so we wanted one in our pocket, now a computer in our pocket isn't enough so we need one to wear. Next a computer to wear won't be enough so we need to have it inside us or be inside it.

Also, are people really that lazy that pushing a few buttons on a phone is too much work for them? They actually want to think words onto the screen? What a silly idea. I don't know about anyone else, but my thoughts are hardly coherent inside my mind. I need time to formulate them so they make sense to someone besides me. Are we going to see "um..." between every other word and "Oh crap, I didn't mean to think that. Take it away" on Facebook? It'll be a chore to read.

Personally, I agree. I think that some of these new gadgets are more novelty items than advances in computer science. I think furthering we should be using the field of computer science to gain a better understanding of the universe. You know whatever. It is a consumer item so I am not legally forced to use any technology like this. However, technology is supposed to create solutions to problems. I just don't know whether I have ever thought that life was more difficult without virtual reality and I don't see how it would benefit my life.

 

[mecca]

VR gaming is one aspect of virtual reality that I think seems cool and fun. As with everything though, it will probably be used against the people in a bad way.

 

[rainerann]

VR gaming is one aspect of virtual reality that I think seems cool and fun. As with everything though, it will probably be used against the people in a bad way.

There was a VR device that I thought looked cool, but most of what we are speculating right now depends are market driven consumer items, so they won't necessarily last.

I think VR already is being used against people. Have you seen in Divergent where she was hooked up to a VR device that put her through a fear test. I don't doubt that people are able to do this. It is even how I think that you would be able to reduce the evidence in traumatizing people to make them susceptible to suggestion. I mean fairy tales like Alice in Wonderland have been linked to MKultra for how long? How easy would it be to have someone go to a wonderland setting where they would be traumatized and dissociate with a VR device now? That person could much more easily think it was all just a bad dream because there would be so many aspects that wouldn't exist in reality, but would as though they were very real at the same time.

 

[mecca]

I think VR already is being used against people. Have you seen in Divergent where she was hooked up to a VR device that put her through a fear test. I don't doubt that people are able to do this. It is even how I think that you would be able to reduce the evidence in traumatizing people to make them susceptible to suggestion. I mean fairy tales like Alice in Wonderland have been linked to MKultra for how long? How easy would it be to have someone go to a wonderland setting where they would be traumatized and dissociate with a VR device now? That person could much more easily think it was all just a bad dream because there would be so many aspects that wouldn't exist in reality, but would as though they were very real at the same time.

You're totally right. I was thinking about that exact same thing when VR headsets started getting more popular.

 

[mecca]

That hunger games ripoff was a really weird movie.

 

[UnspokenSoliloquy]

That hunger games ripoff was a really weird movie.

The Divergent series was pretty good. I don't want to spoil it but the last movie revealed everything. What you see on screen is from a whole different perspective of whats really going on and it promotes the trans humanist agenda.

 

[mecca]

The Divergent series was pretty good. I don't want to spoil it but the last movie revealed everything. What you see on screen is from a whole different perspective of whats really going on and it promotes the trans humanist agenda.

wow lol, i have not seen the other movies
(so it gets worse... lol)

 

[TMT]

I'm excited about the possibilities of VR, I just wish Facebook and Google would stay out of it.

 

[Qedr]

I'm excited about the possibilities of VR, I just wish Facebook and Google would stay out of it.

Exactly. Google & Facebook tend to buy innovative technologies and adapt them to their wicked business models. The outcome is usually the another step to control the masses.

According to FB news, VR is going to be just another addiction for people. Forget its huge possibilities, let's just play and play and don't care about anything else! Sad

 

[TMT]

Exactly. Google & Facebook tend to buy innovative technologies and adapt them to their wicked business models. The outcome is usually the another step to control the masses.

According to FB news, VR is going to be just another addiction for people. Forget its huge possibilities, let's just play and play and don't care about anything else! Sad

Once they perfect VR porn you will have people who will die of thirst or lack of sleep, just like there has been people who died from playing MMOs.

But it will just be another spy tool/control mechanism from Google and Facebook.

 

[Qedr]

Once they perfect VR porn you will have people who will die of thirst or lack of sleep, just like there has been people who died from playing MMOs.

People who died playing MMOs were the people who should've never started playing them. Some of us are just more prone to addictions. I suppose you're right though.

But it will just be another spy tool/control mechanism from Google and Facebook.

I agree.