The Oculus Venues social app for live events has been around for a couple of years, starting out on Oculus Go and Gear VR. Last month the app got a makeover and a rebrand to Venues, bringing it more in line with Facebook Horizon‘s aesthetic and only made available in limited beta form. With the […]
Facebook Gaming Signs Streamer KingRichard to Exclusive Deal
With more than 38M views attributed to his content, Facebook Gaming has signed Richard “KingRichard” Nelson to an exclusive streaming deal. The seven-time Apex Legends tournament winner will start streaming today via the Facebook Gaming platform. The deal was facilitated by Loaded and financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. Known for his magnanimous […]
Facebook Researching VR/AR 'Enhanced Hearing' Technology
Facebook researchers are investigating AR glasses featuring “hear-through” technology powered by specialized in-ear monitors for “enhanced hearing.” The technology “would be able to recognize different types of events happening around you: people having conversations, the air conditioning noise, dishes and silverware clanking. Then using contextualized AI, your AR glasses would be able to make smart […]
Facebook open-sources Opacus, a PyTorch library for differential privacy
Facebook today open-sourced Opacus, a library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy that’s ostensibly more scalable than existing methods. With the release of Opacus, Facebook says it hopes to provide an easier path for engineers to adopt differential privacy in AI and to accelerate in-the-field differential privacy research. Typically, differential privacy entails injecting a […]
Facebook Horizon Only Displays Your Oculus ID, Not Your 'Real Name'
According to Facebook, when you’re inside Facebook Horizon you will not display your real name even though your Oculus account and Facebook account must be linked to use the app. Instead, all users will only see your Oculus ID. You won’t have to wait much longer to try out Facebook Horizon, the upcoming collaborative world-building and […]
Oculus Connect Rebranded as Facebook Connect, September Date Confirmed
Last week saw Facebook announce some major news regarding its virtual reality (VR) efforts and this influx continues today. The company has revealed that its annual Oculus Connect event is being rebranded and the official name for its VR/AR division has been formalised. The event will now be called Facebook Connect and it’ll take place […]
Facebook Connect: Oculus Connect 7 Renamed, Held September 16
A week after announcing it will soon require Facebook sign-ins for VR devices, Facebook is renaming Oculus Connect to Facebook Connect. The new iteration of the company’s VR developer event will be taking place digitally on September 16th. In addition to its focus on VR, Facebook Connect will also give more time to the company’s […]
Facebook Marketing in 2020
Marketing is always crucial for the final success of a company, its products, ideas or anything we want to place on the market. Once upon a time, the most popular methods were advertising on billboards, in newspapers and on television, especially in primetime. However, things are changing. In the last twenty years, with the growing […]
Facebook gamifies data collection to boost conversational AI
Facebook piloted a text-based fantasy role-playing game to improve the conversational models powering things like its chatbots and smart speakers. In a preprint paper, researchers at the company describe a game that iterates between collecting data and retraining models on the collected data, with a metric that evaluates and compares models using players’ continuation rates […]
Facebook Account Required For New Oculus VR Headsets
From October 2020, Facebook will require anyone using an Oculus device for the first time to log in via a Facebook account. It will no longer be possible to sign-up with a separate Oculus ID. In addition, starting in 2023 the social media giant will end support for existing Oculus accounts and attach “full functionality” […]