{"id":335537,"date":"2017-03-11T02:29:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1463440"},"modified":"2017-03-11T02:29:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T18:29:06","slug":"oculus-introduces-facebook-livestreaming-oculus-voice-in-new-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/oculus-introduces-facebook-livestreaming-oculus-voice-in-new-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus introduces Facebook livestreaming, Oculus Voice in new update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/screen-shot-2017-03-10-at-10-26-48-am.png?w=738\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Explaining what VR is like can be a pretty daunting task. Today, Facebook and Oculus are making it a bit easer to share VR experiences with your friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside a host of social features which also included the addition of a new events app and viewing of 360 videos in Oculus Rooms, today Oculus <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/blog\/introducing-rooms-12-and-oculus-events-for-gear-vrplus-a-look-at-facebook-livestreaming-and-oculus-voice\/\">showed off<\/a> an update to its Gear VR platform which will allow users to share live gameplay footage of their virtual reality sessions directly to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube c5\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player c4\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OBMAtbG73m8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The feature, which is launching to users outside of the US today and will be released here in the States \u201cin the coming weeks,\u201d is meant to increase the visibility of VR content and allow people to better showcase what playing VR is like to their friends.<\/p>\n<p>This is only the latest Facebook integration into Oculus as of late. Earlier this week, Facebook introduced their first VR app, Facebook 360, which serves as a home for the site\u2019s 360-degree photos and videos. With these features, Facebook is better leveraging their community to increase access to VR and give users who haven\u2019t tried it a better idea of what it\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n<p>The other big announcement that Oculus made today is the addition of voice search to the Oculus Home platform on both Rift and Gear VR. This is a pretty key evolution and will make discovering content that much easier as the library of gamin titles and experiences grows in the storefront. Onscreen keyboards in VR are about the worst thing to navigate ever so the addition of voice search will definitely assuage some user frustration. Oculus Voice, as they are calling it, will be launching with search support but will likely evolve to support more digital assistant-like tasks such as seeing if a friend is online or other contextual commands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/screen-shot-2017-03-10-at-10-26-48-am.png?w=680\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/screen-shot-2017-03-10-at-10-26-48-am.png?w=680 680w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/screen-shot-2017-03-10-at-10-26-48-am.png?w=1360 1360w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/screen-shot-2017-03-10-at-10-26-48-am.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/screen-shot-2017-03-10-at-10-26-48-am.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/screen-shot-2017-03-10-at-10-26-48-am.png?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>&nbsp;Explaining what VR is like can be a pretty daunting task. Today, Facebook and Oculus are making it a bit easer to share VR experiences with your friends and family. Alongside a host of social features which also included the addition of a new events app and viewing of 360 videos in Oculus Rooms, today Oculus showed off an update to its Gear VR platform which will allow users to share live&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/10\/oculus-introduces-facebook-livestreaming-oculus-voice-in-new-update\/?ncid=rss\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=oixXyO2l80I:uecS4EpynYY:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=oixXyO2l80I:uecS4EpynYY:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=oixXyO2l80I:uecS4EpynYY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=oixXyO2l80I:uecS4EpynYY:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=oixXyO2l80I:uecS4EpynYY:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=oixXyO2l80I:uecS4EpynYY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=oixXyO2l80I:uecS4EpynYY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=oixXyO2l80I:uecS4EpynYY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~4\/oixXyO2l80I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59,66,26],"class_list":["post-335537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-techcrunch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}