{"id":55154,"date":"2016-05-12T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=55154"},"modified":"2016-05-12T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:01:51","slug":"2-items-re-virtual-reality-vr-based-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/05\/12\/2-items-re-virtual-reality-vr-based-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"2 items re: Virtual Reality (VR)-based communications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verizon files patent for Virtual Reality phone system<\/strong><\/a> — from uploadvr.com<\/p>\n

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In hopes of keeping you immersed in your VR experience, Verizon was issued a patent<\/a> yesterday that allows you to make calls while using VR to those who are not. Although Verizon is far from being the first<\/a> to implement this idea (see: HTC Vive Phone Service<\/a>), what is new is how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

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Facebook shows us what it means to be ‘social’ in Virtual Reality (video) <\/strong><\/a>— from recode.net by Kurt Wagner
\nGatherings of avatars.<\/p>\n

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At its F8 developer conference<\/a>…Facebook demoed what it calls \u201csocial VR,\u201d which is exactly what it sounds like: Connecting two or more real people in a virtual world.<\/p>\n

Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer stood on stage in front of a live audience in San Francisco, put on one of Facebook\u2019s Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets and \u201cteleported\u201d to London. There, he met up with another Facebook employee, who was actually wearing his own headset at the company\u2019s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters.<\/p>\n

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