Facebook wants virtual reality to 'redefine our tribe'
Imagine a day when you're catching up with your college roommate in London as you sit in your office in Boston -- just like you would if you were in the same room together.
That's the vision Facebook has for the future of social networking.
That future, according to Yaser Sheikh, a Facebook Oculus VR researcher and associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will be based on virtual reality, or Social VR.
"Social VR done right lets us define our tribe and who we hang out with and do business with based on choice and not proximity," Sheikh said during a keynote talk during the second day of Facebook's annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco today. "Proximity would no longer determine who you spend your time with."
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