What's missing from Facebook's vision of a VR future

On Tuesday, Facebook doubled down on its commitment to pushing social media into virtual reality ("doubling down" is literally the language they used). 

Stalking the stage at F8, Mark Zuckerberg, and later the company's head of social VR, Rachel Franklin, laid out the next phase of Facebook's vision for getting you to take your Likes, emoji reactions, and personal connections into VR using tools like the Oculus Rift.   

That enhanced commitment took the form of Facebook Spaces, an app the company demonstrated on stage and released to Oculus Rift users right after the event ended. To introduce us to the app, a video shows people interacting from their home Rift set-ups to communicate via Facebook Spaces avatars in VR.  Read more...