Facebook Developer Conference F8 and Augmented Reality


Facebook Developer Conference knows as F8 is the main conference of Facebook held on April 18-19, 2017. Keynote of Mark Zuckerberg is posted on the conference portal. It is good to listen his thoughts and future roadmap on the facebook, social media. Lot of stuff presented during the conference on family of applications and services – Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus, Workplace, Audience Network, and Internet.org

At the event, Facebook shared a number of new products and features they’re building, main 4, interesting to read more…follow the links

  • Camera Effects Platform: an opportunity for people and Pages to create custom, graphical frames or augmented reality effects for use with photos and videos in the new camera experience or with profile pictures.
  • Messenger Platform: a new suite of tools that gives brands the ability to build richer experiences, get discovered, and extend the conversational, visual and social capabilities of Messenger chat bots.
  • Facebook Analytics Enhancements: a free product for accessing audience demographics and measuring customer behavior across channels.
  • Facebook Spaces: a new VR app where you can hang out with friends in a fun, interactive virtual environment as if you were in the same room

Top 10 announcements of F8 conference are:

  1. Augmented Reality
  2. Camera Effects Platform
  3. Facebook Spaces
  4. Giphy + Facebook Live
  5. Messenger Business Bots
  6. Messenger Discover Tab
  7. Parametric QR codes
  8. Smart Replies for Pages
  9. Facebook Analytics
  10. Global Connectivity