If in recent days we have already been faced with continuous news from various platforms such as Instagram with those 400 million users or its advertising ads, today is the time for a great novelty for Mark Zuckerberg's social network that hosts 360-degree videos on your timeline to be able to be amazed with some of them as it happens with the one from Star Wars.
This race to launch more features and more news in the shortest time possible in order to overtake that direct rival who wants to take away our portion of the cake, leads us to be sometimes dumbfounded by Facebook, Twitter or Google as well as many others . This time they are the 360 videos that we can access from the Facebook social network itself to marvel at that little trip that we can take in one of those Star Wars ships, while some enemies harass us by looking back or looking ahead trying to take their eyes off their aggressiveness.
Facebook and 360-degree videos
Facebook has announced that can greatly enhance the video experience that a user can take when he is calmly looking at his timeline. The social network has said that now you can launch posts to Facebook with videos made with 360-degree cameras such as the GoPro ball. These videos can only be viewed from the web or from any of the Android devices that have been released in recent months.
With those 360-degree videos on the web, you can click and drag the player in such a way that the view can be rotated, while mobile device users will have to move their phone to look from different angles and aspects of the clip.
This makes the video experience something really fabulous as you can see in the examples that we share from these lines and that are really surprising.
360 degrees and Oculus
We already learned how Facebook acquired Oculus VR at the time, the company in charge of the Rift virtual reality device. And since they intend that virtual reality will be one of the most important elements for the future, Zuckerberg already wants involve her in her own social network with those 360 degree videos. So we could say that it is laying the first brick for what will be a new series of features that will have to do with the development of Oculus.
YouTube already offers support for this type of 360-degree videos, although they are not entirely popular there they are. The videos that we can access on Facebook are some from Discovery, GoPro, Lebron James and the new trailer for the upcoming Stars Wars movie.
Una very interesting proposal for Facebook and for those who can use their smartphone to rotate or move it to change the perspective of the video and discover another way to watch videos.
Link to 360 degree video Star Wars: The Force Awakens/ Discovery/ Go Pro/ LeBron James
