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| © Courtesy of Facebook Facebook said Wednesday it will launch a virtual social community where users of its Oculus headgear can "explore new places" and "create their own new experiences." |
Facebook said Wednesday it will launch a virtual social community
where users of its Oculus headgear can "explore new places" and "create
their own new experiences."
The Horizon virtual world set for a beta launch in 2020 represents a
new initiative for the Oculus virtual reality unit of the leading social
network.
Oculus users will be able to choose an avatar and interact with
others in the virtual social community, Facebook said as it opened its
Oculus Connect 6 conference.
"Our goal is to put people at the center of computing, not just with
great hardware, but with amazing software experiences as well," Facebook
said in a statement.
Facebook Horizon will be "a new social
experience in VR where you can build your own worlds with easy-to-use
tools (no coding skills required)," the company said.
Facebook
chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told the conference, "Because everyone
is going to be able to create their own spaces and experiences within
it, Horizon is going to have this property where it just grows and
expands and gets better and better over time."
Horizon will replace earlier versions of the social VR community Facebook Spaces and Oculus Rooms.
Oculus
remains a small part of Facebook's services, with its core social
network and other platforms reaching more than two billion people
worldwide.
Analysts expect sales of 1.3 million units in 2019 of the Oculus Quest, the headset unveiled last year.
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