Facebook Introduces Video 360 °

Facebook began to plunge into the world of virtual reality by introducing a 360 ° video. This feature allows users to view video from multiple angles.

During this time, the video we watch presents only two-dimensional images. But did you ever think to look at the image displayed on the video from another angle in order to see another part of the video that you can not see from a certain angle? Facebook has just introduced this feature.

Starting from its cooperation with Oculus VR years ago, in an attempt to bring virtual reality on the Facebook social networking account. The collaboration turned out to produce a new feature on Facebook that video 360 °. Video 360 ° was already introduced by Facebook through the Facebook blog Newsaroom published on Wednesday (23/09/2015), and will soon be launched in the News Feed of users.

Basically, users only need to pull to the left, right, up or down on the screen to view the video from different angles. Smartphone users can even get a better experience with a 360 ° video feature. Because just by tilting the smartphone, users can explore various angles in the video. Note however, currently only Android smartphone users can experience a 360 ° video. If this feature is actually launched, it could be Facebook will be a pioneer for virtual reality presence in social networking through 360 degrees this video.

But if all of the video can be viewed using video 360 degrees? Unfortunately, today is not all videos can be viewed in 360 degrees. Only videos recorded using a special camera that can be seen 360 degrees. So even though this feature has been available on Facebook, do not expect you can see the video from different angles. At least, until a special camera that can record video in 360 degrees is applied to the smartphone.

But this time, there are some publishers who already have video content 360 degrees that include Star Wars, Discovery, GoPro, LeBron James and Uninterrupted, NBC's Saturday Night Live, and VICE also Disney and Lucasfilm who will soon debut the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens. To see the video samples 360, you can click on the following link.