The social networking giant Facebook is now featuring 360-degree virtual reality-style videos in its newsfeed. They introduced this using the Oculus on Wednesday Sept. 23 to let users experience looking at videos in all directions by scrolling on their own phones and computers.

According to CNN, Facebook top product executive Chris Cox said on his Facebook page that uploading 360 Video by anyone will be very soon coming. The users will be able to share experiences with friends and loved ones online that were not possible before. Nowadays it will cost approximately $400 or more to be able to have many special cameras with 360 degrees.

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Marketing materials from the makers of Star Wars, Go Pro, NBC's Saturday Night Live, and so on were the first batch of 360 videos shown on Wednesday. A glimpse of the upcoming film Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens was first published. In the Star Wars video, the desolate, war-torn wasteland of the far-off planet was shown. In the Go Pro video, a dirt bike joy ride in the Idaho desert was presented. And in the Saturday Night Live video, the live audience during their 40th anniversary show was staged.

Using a smartphone, tilting the device to look around will capture the video. Users on a phone drag left and right using their finger in order to look around and move across the desert or scenery. And if on a desktop PC, which works best right now, users clicked and dragged on the video screen in any directions using the cursor of the mouse.

The Oculus VR is the heart of all of this and creates a computer-generated world of what the user chooses. This shows that the Facebook is a popular site in viewing photos and videos and now they are preparing for the next stage of media that increases user interaction. It is not only Facebook that started with this type of media but also YouTube supported 360-degree videos in March. Cnet reports that this is a key step for Facebook to prepare the users of the radical changes coming to the technology industry.

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