{"id":2661,"date":"2016-04-14T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/facebooks-killer-social-vr-demo-puts-the-real-world-on-notice\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:35:07","slug":"facebooks-killer-social-vr-demo-puts-the-real-world-on-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/facebooks-killer-social-vr-demo-puts-the-real-world-on-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook’s killer Social VR demo puts the real world on notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bravo, Facebook. Social VR is now officially something I want in Facebook. You made me want it, damn you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since Facebook bought Oculus VR for $2 billion in 2014<\/a>, Mark Zuckerberg has made clear his intention to merge social networking with virtual reality. While it made intuitive sense, I really thought Zuckerberg was paying lip service to the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With its immersive headgear that cuts you off from the outside world and the pricey graphics-laden hardware on the back-end, the Oculus Rift system seemed tailor made for deep-dive gaming, not chatting up your Aunt May on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Facebook just made VR selfie sticks a thing<\/a> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bravo, Facebook. Social VR is now officially something I want in Facebook. You made me want it, damn you. Ever since Facebook bought Oculus VR for $2 billion in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg has made clear his intention to merge social … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[851,1867,1866,745,744],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-facebook","tag-oculus-rift","tag-social-vr","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}