Facebook上周宣布了四件大事
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上周二，Facebook在每年一度的F8开发者大会上描绘了理想中的未来，顺便介绍了一些新工具和新功能。 增强现实 周二Facebook首席执行官马克•扎克伯格一走上大会讲台，就首先强调相机将变成社交中与朋友交流的重要工具。所以鼓励开发者为Facebook打造带有全新增强现实滤镜的相机，很快会开始启动测试版。最终会上线数十种增强现实滤镜，例如面具、相框等等，在Facebook应用的相机中都能找到。 根据Facebook提供的测试版，滤镜可以跟随画面移动，而且能根据画面内容自动调整。举例来说，用户可以将一张房间的照片修改成放满糖果，也能在麦片碗旁边加上一条游水的鲨鱼。 Facebook称增强现实平台会不断改进，以后人们可以在餐馆给朋友留虚拟便条，也可以在墙上绘制虚拟作品，只有通过手机才能看到。 Facebook将推出相关软件帮助开发者搭建增强现实应用，软件名叫增强现实工作室。扎克伯格还半开玩笑地说，全公司的命运都看增强现实，还宣布“最终”会应用在眼镜中。 Facebook空间 自从2014年Facebook斥资20亿美元收购了虚拟现实公司Oculus VR，扎克伯格就一直表示虚拟现实是社交互动的未来。本周二Facebook迈出了重要一步——推出新应用Facebook空间，用户可以跟朋友共同进入虚拟世界。 本周二Facebook空间上线测试版，用户可以创建虚拟形象，在虚拟现实中跟朋友聊天互动。Facebook可以通过用户照片生成虚拟形象，也可以根据个人喜好修改。互动时用户可以绘制虚拟标记，观看360度全景视频，也可以通过聊天客户端呼朋唤友。 聊天室新功能 Facebook聊天室开发平台放开后，聊天插件越来越多，但寻找新插件还是有点不便。最新解决方法是在主页添加“发现”标签，点进去可以看到插件分类，最近使用，流行插件以及搜索框等。 Facebook也在发力拓展聊天室功能，今后可以支持多人同时对接第三方应用或处理事务。举个例子，如今用户可以向聊天窗口转发Spotify里的音乐，实现同步收听。 2015年以来，Facebook一直在测试虚拟助手M，如今终于要应用在聊天应用里。现在聊天时提到吃东西， M会建议去Delivery.com下单。就在此前不久，Facebook刚宣布将在聊天室中加入M助手，支持相关聊天标签和其他功能。 中国的微信软件里，用户与商家的大量互动通过二维码完成，Facebook希望自家聊天平台也能实现类似效果。Facebook推出新二维码功能，用户用手机扫码之后可以了解更多活动内容。 开发生态圈 Facebook希望通过全新的开发生态能吸引新一代应用开发者。新平台向所有开发者免费提供，完全开放，而且很适合相互协作和分享知识。本地开发者可以负责当地圈子，组织线下活动并管理当地的Facebook工作组。此外Facebook也在努力吸引学生和经验丰富的程序员，将与优达学城合作为开发者生态圈提供定制培训项目。（财富中文网） 本文首发于Time.com 译者：Pessy 审稿：夏林
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Facebook laid out its vision for the future Tuesday, revealing new tools and features during its annual F8 developers conference. Augmented reality When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off Tuesday's conference, he emphasized that the camera would play a larger role in how people interact with friends on the social network. Facebook is encouraging developers to build new augmented reality camera effects for Facebook, which will be launching in a closed beta starting immediately. Eventually, dozens of AR-powered effects, like masks and frames, will be available within the Facebook app's camera. Based on the company's demo, these photo effects will be able to move and adjust based on what the camera is pointing at. Users could fill a photo of a room with candy, for instance, or put swimming sharks around an image of a cereal bowl. Facebook says its AR platform will eventually make it possible to leave a virtual note for a friend at a restaurant or create artwork that appears on a building wall when looking at it with your phone. Facebook will be launching software to help developers create such experiences called AR Studio. Zuckerberg also teased the company's ultimate goal with AR, saying yet again the tech will "eventually" be implemented in glasses. Facebook Spaces Ever since Facebook acquired virtual reality firm Oculus VR for $2 billion in 2014, Zuckerberg has said that he sees VR as the future of social interaction. Facebook unveiled its first major step in that direction on Tuesday with Facebook Spaces, an app that makes it possible to spend time with friends in virtual reality. Through the app, which launches in beta on Tuesday, users can create a digital avatar, then chat and interact with friends in VR. Facebook will generate an avatar based on your photos, which you can customize. During these hangouts, participants can draw with virtual markers, watch 360-degree videos, and call other friends through Messenger. New Messenger features Facebook's selection of chat bots has quickly grown since the company opened its Messenger platform to developers, but there hasn't been an easy way to find new bots. Facebook is addressing that issue by adding a new Discover tab accessible from the home screen. Here, Messenger will offer categories, recently used bots, trending bots, and a search field. Facebook is also building chat extensions into Messenger, which make it possible for more than one person to interact with a third party app or business at the same time. For example, Messenger users will now be able to drop songs from Spotify into a thread so that they can all listen to the same track. Facebook has been experimenting with its M virtual assistant since 2015, and now it's finally bringing some of that intelligence to its chat app. When talking about what to grab for dinner in Messenger, M will now be able to suggest placing an order through Delivery.com. The announcement comes after Facebook recently announced that M will be coming to Messenger to serve up relevant stickers and perform other functions. QR codes have become a large part of the way WeChat users interact with brands in China, and Facebook is betting some of that interest will translate to its own communication platform. The company is rolling out new QR codes that makes it possible to learn more about events in the real world by scanning them with your phone. Developer Circles Facebook is hoping to make its platform attractive for the next generation of app creators through its new Developer Circles initiative. The program is free an open to any developer, and will function as a forum for collaborating and sharing knowledge. Local developers will lead each circle by organizing offline events and managing a Facebook Group for that specific region. The company is pushing it as an opportunity for students and experienced coders alike. Facebook will also partner with Udacity to create custom training programs for Developer Circles. This article originally appeared at Time.com |
