New features are slated to begin launching later this year.
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Facebook wants you to take a selfie in virtual reality.
Stay tuned to GizBot for more updates! The new Messenger Send / Receive API will now support images and interactive bubbles, besides sending and receiving text messages. Account Kit doesn’t require people to have a Facebook account to log on. But now it just got even more useful as it’ll be appearing all over the web in the form of a shiny new “Save to Facebook” button, taking cues from the likes of Pocket. It can read behavioral changes, and learns as it speaks with more people.
If you have created an app or website you probably appreciate the ability for people to sign in with their Facebook login credentials; it saves them having to create a new password which is often a major barrier.
Up until now, you could only use a phone and the Facebook app to post live video to the platform.
“Bank of America sees tremendous potential in connecting our financial services expertise with Messenger to deliver enhanced access, convenience and value for our clients”, said Michelle Moore, B of A’s head of digital banking, in a press release.
Facebook is always thinking about new ways to make more money off of you – it must in order to maintain its fast-paced sales growth – but the company’s executives know better than to talk too openly about that at its biggest event of the year. But now the company has its own “Surround 360” open source camera.
Developers will now build easily for Free Basics with the Free Basics Simulator. It will let the users have a look at how their service will appear in the product.
VR and AR to replace glasses in Future! As part of that effort, Facebook is looking into investing further in technologies such as virtual and augmented reality (he offered a glimpse of Google Glass-like specs), artificial intelligence, drones, satellites, and lasers.
While there is no way of monitoring every action chatbots take with their users, Facebook says it hopes developers will start small and work out simple programs that will end up being of assistance to customers. He’s one of several analysts who believe consumers would prefer talking to a business within the messaging app they’re already using, rather than download a separate app and create another user name and password for each business.
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Customers will have to opt in to enable any company’s bot, and for now, companies aren’t allowed to use them purely for advertising purposes. Instead of needing a myriad of apps, the Messenger app will be a new platform.
