Facebook introduces 360-degree video feature
After YouTube’s launch of 360-degree videos, Facebook has also introduced the feature and will begin rolling out 360-degree videos in News Feed from September 23.
Facebook videos have been getting four billion daily video views and the company is increasingly focussing on scaling up the video product.
It said in a company blog post, “Over time, we’ve seen that people enjoy more immersive content in their News Feeds. This is one reason video has been so successful on Facebook, and we’re excited to take it a step further with 360 video.”
To create 360 videos, a special set of cameras is used to record all 360 degrees of a scene simultaneously. This means that when the video is playing on Facebook, users can choose what angle they want to see it from. On the web they can do this by dragging around the video with their cursor, and on mobile devices they can do it by dragging with their finger.
The feature is rolled out on Android and web version at the moment and will be launched on iOS soon.
