Facebook is finally ready to try and push virtual reality more mainstream.
At its annual F8 developer conference in California, the company today announced it’s launching its Oculus Go VR headset.
The Go, which will cost $199 for a 32-gigabit headset or $249 for a 64-gigabit version, could help give people interested in VR a way to try it without breaking the bank.
“Oculus Go is the easiest way to get into VR, and we think that this is going to become how a lot of people experience virtual reality and virtual presence for the first time.”
For the debut, Facebook is rolling out more than 1,000 games and experiences including a short VR version of Jurassic World and a space exploration video created with NASA.
Last year at F8, Facebook debuted Facebook Spaces, a VR social network that lets users become Bitmoji-like avatars to hang out in 360-degree videos.
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are still at the very initial stages of their potential.
With Samsung and Sony’s PlayStation VR headsets gaining a lot of attention over the past few months.
VR: the next computing platform:
VR and AR attention and focus has been mainly shifted to gaming, film making and other entertainment content, but in a recent interview the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, believes that Virtual Reality could well be the next step for business and computing.
It’s undeniable that photos and videos are richer and more poignant, in comparison with words and text.
Zuckerberg estimated that it will take between 5-10 years for this technology to infiltrate the mainstream market and be used in everyday life.
Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and others are investing in AR, VR and MR technologies, literally since 2011.
It is important to understand that Virtual reality completely blocks the existing reality – you see a fictional universe created by someone.
This effect is achieved due to the helmet of virtual reality like PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or Google Daydream.
One of the applications can be the designing of your house or apartment interior.
Accuracy and quality depend directly on the application itself.
You do not need any equipment, suits or helms to feel and try augmented reality out.
It’s an undeniable fact that a mobile app with a user-friendly interface and necessary features can assist you skyrocketing sales through boosting your restaurant business. But then, if you fail to come up with an app that can attract, engage, and retain the users, chances are high that you fall behind competitors.
Here we point out five basic mobile app development mistakes that prevent your restaurant mobile app to become popular:
- Wrong Platform
So, you have a restaurant chain across the US. Now think, can you ignore an iOS platform? Though you have an app for Android, it is impossible to address the targeted audience efficiently and wholly if it is based in the US. Similarly, if you have a business in Asian countries, an iOS app alone cannot give the desired result. In other words, when you opt for a mobile app, just keep your target audience in mind. It is better to come up with a cross-platform app to appeal a huge audience irrespective of platforms and devices.
- Irrelevant Features and Information
Which are the features you want to include in your app? Well, it depends on the user’s requirements regarding your business and overall hospitality sector. For example, you cannot give a ‘to-do’ feature in your app. Such irrelevant and unnecessary features can move the users away from your app. You need to give useful features that can engage your customers. You can give city weather info...