Facebook will launch a Virtual Reality App in iOS and Android platform.

Facebook spent $2 billion acquisition of the company Oculus VR Virtual Reality in 2014, the beginning of the official revealed that they are developing virtual reality App. Today, Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar again, Facebook will launch a Virtual Reality App iOS, Android standalone applications

In mid-February this year, Code / Media Conference of Facebook product Chris Cox had long foreign media Re / code organized, the company disclosed for virtual reality (Virtual Reality, VR) vision, and said it is committed to the development of virtual reality Habitat App.

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Now this Virtual Reality App has been further news, Wall Street Journal cited sources pointed out, Facebook will launch a Virtual Reality App independent applications in iOS, Android platform, support 360 degree panorama or spherical image browsing, allowing users to tilt the phone through perspective view images. This App is still in early stages of development, has not yet informed the official launch of the duration and details, the official declined to comment.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg think virtual reality App will be the mainstream of the next phase of digital applications, this industry will be detached Facebook - Social Network, focus on the future of entertainment, education, health care, industrial R & D applications.

He has worked in the year F8 Facebook Developer Conference said that users can view on the future of Facebook virtual reality videos to mouse control perspective views of the 360-degree panorama; except for the expanded layout software, also plans its first Oculus VR paragraph Consumer Rift virtual reality apps display to open up futures in the second half of this year, and to begin shipping in the first quarter of 2016.

Although the use of virtual reality App on smart phones, compared to Rift this head-mounted virtual reality display still feel some of the less immersive, but a Facebook application will help expand in virtual reality the field of development, without head-mounted display can also provide a wider range of experience to more users.

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Facebook Looks to Bring Virtual Reality to Mobile Devices