Facebook launches new virtual reality appReuters Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the 2017 Facebook F8 developers conference. Facebook has created a virtual space for Facebook friends to meet and interact using virtual reality "as if you were in the same room". READ MORE: Facebook's future will blend physical and digital worldsSpaces also allows users to bring in other Facebook contacts, even those without access to virtual reality, through the ability to video call others via Facebook Messenger. During the event, Zuckerberg also unveiled new augmented technology the company is working on, that again uses the Facebook camera - called the Camera Effects Platform. Showing the software in action, the Facebook boss demonstrated capturing an office using the software and then virtually filling it with water on-screen.

Source: Stuff April 18, 2017 20:15 UTC