Discover all that happened at F8
Discover the principal news announced F8 2018 to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus Go and much more.
F8 is a conference that happened at San Jose, California this year. This event put together media professionals, press, innovation and developers to explore the future of technology on facebook products.
Mark Zuckerberg started presenting how big is the responsibility that the network has because it offers tools and news, but also garanties that they want people to use it for the good. Zuck said this is a serious commitment that is always going to get attention.
Discover the news announced on the first day! ㅤㅤ
Stories Sharing
New ways for users to share moments on their facebook or Instagram Stories. The user will be able to share activities of other Apps, like Spotify. It’s a big incentive for users to use even more the Stories on both products of Facebook.
Better navigability and emphasis to groups
One new tab of groups will help all users to find easily on groups they take part and interact with the contend made for the community. ㅤ
Clear History
The resource will be built for users to understand the sites and apps that are sending information when you access them. The tool would allow the user to delete the information already stored, beyond the possibility of active the capacity of storing data.
Blood donation on Facebook
The tool is already being tested on India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. the blood donations on Facebook will get easier to people find opportunities to donate on places that are close to them. In a few weeks people in these Countries will be able to see the blood donation fields nearly to them, requests of blood donation at only one place on Facebook. In the future other places in the world will live this reality too.
Answer to the crisisㅤ
In the last year was realesed the “Answer to the Crisis”, a Center on Facebook that people can have information about recent crises that are happening around the world, and access the Safety Check, Community Help and the Fundraisers. The resource will be realesed in the end of this year. ㅤ
Facebook Flirt
One new resource to flirt and relation on Facebook app. People already use facebook to know people, now the network wants to let this experience better. Will be possible to create a dating profile separated from facebook’s profile — and the possible messages will be recommended in base of the dating preferences, interest and commun friends. People will discover other people with the same interest by their groups and events. But, what people do inside of this resource will not be shown to their friends. The tests with this new tool are going to start this year.
Bigger invest on Developers community
On the last months the network is embracing significant changes and lots of measures to protect in the best way the information of people on Facebook, They want to get the App Cristal clear and trustable.
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Chat by Video
After finding tests and users using the new tool, the chat by video on instagram is finally released. The tool give a new way to people use videos in real time to connect, even when they can’t be together. The chat by video will be disponible on Instagram direct and will give autonomy to chat between two people or a group. It will support until 4 people in time, chatting and navigating on the app without interrupt the chat. This resource will be released globally in some days.
Camera effects for Instagram
One new resource to Instagram, providing to content creators to make experience of exclusive and interact cameras, including face filters and effects to every one, to their instagram followers.
New Explore
The Instagram Explore was completely redesigned to make easier discover new things that interest users. The new Explore will organize the suggested content in channels and relevant topics, making easier than never navigate by interest, going deeper in any specific area. this new resource will be released globally in a few days to all users.
Calls in groups and Stickers on WhatsApp
The calls in groups will be able in the next months, the users will be able to do video calls between group members. Dozens of stickers also will be in WhatsApp sonner to give more interaction on conversations with the biggest messenger ever.
Oculus Go
The first headset VR independent of Oculus got available, starting at US$ 199. With more than 1.000 Apps, games and experience available, he brings one easier way to get in the virtual reality with this headset ‘all-in-one’.
The second day of conference had focus on subjects about investment in technoçogy and future projects on facebook at 3 areas: connectivity, AI and AR / VR.ㅤ
AR / VR
Facebook have been moving forward at RA and RV, based on a number of areas of research to help us create best shared experiences, independent of physical distance. Starting with capture environments with realistic appearance until it produces avatars to the next generation to make experience at AR / VR look like reality.
Realistic environment are important to create AR/ VR more immersive, but also are realistic avatars. The Facebook teams have been working at researches to help the computers to generate photorealistic avatars.
Connectivity
All advance at AI e AR / VR are only relevant if the users have access to a strong connection to the internet — and currently exist 3,8 billion of people all around the world that doesn’t have access to the internet. To high quality of connection all around the world, the facebook have been focus on developing technologies of last generation that may help to reduce the charges of connectivity to reach the disconnected and grow the capacity and the performance to all the others.
The Facebook Shown lots of projects that have been done in different continents to proportionate internet connection. The network promises to keep investing a lot in this area.
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AI/IA — Artificial Intelligence
Facebook is doing big invests in AI area. He emphasized that Facebook teams train with success at one sistem of recognizing images, in a set of data of 3,5 billions of photos public available, using Hashtags in those pictures in the place of human records. This new technique will allow that the researchers choose their work and more quickly, they already used to obtain high reccord precision of 85,4% used for benchmark ImageNet.
The idea is that the users do not have to use two Frameworks to get to do research produce on the network.
Was announced to the next version of Framework of IA of open source code, the PyTorch 1.0, that combines the capacity of all tools to provide to the community of research of IA to build projects of IA. The technology on PyTorch 1.0 is already used on big scale, including the reality of almost 6 billion of translated text per day to the 48 languages most used on facebook. At RV, those tools help to install new researches in production to make avatars and move on a realistic way.
