Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to make some major announcements on day one of Facebook's annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco. In his address Zuckerberg laid out a future for Facebook.
Here are the 8 biggest announcements made on day 1 of the two-day event:
1. Bots for Messenger: This was one of the expected announcements at this year's F8. On the new Facebook Messenger Platform, bots - automated programs that help users communicate with businesses and carry out tasks - can provide services such as online purchases. Facebook launched chatbots with a handful of partners, including Shopify, an ecommerce site, and cable TV news network CNN. The chatbots are part of Facebook's effort to build out its Messenger instant messaging app as the go-to place for customers to contact businesses - a strategy that threatens traditional call centres and may cut personnel costs for some businesses.
2. Facebook Surround 360 camera: The new Facebook Surround 360 camera can capture footage via 17 cameras and then pull all of the images together via a web-based application. The idea behind the system, which is huge and features a mix of cameras including a fish-eye lenses is to create perfectly spherical films tailored to each eye that can be rendered in 4K and 8K and of course viewed in Virtual Reality. The plans needed to construct an array at home will be open source and the software application capable of taking all of the information from each of the lenses and pulling it all together will be equally free to use.
3. Profile Expression Kit: Facebook users can now use third-party apps to create profile videos. The closed beta kicks off with support for six apps: Boomerang by Instagram, Lollicam, BeautyPlus, Cinemagraph Pro by Flixel, Lollicam, MSQRD, and Vine.
4. Quote Sharing: This is new way for Facebook users to share quotes they find around the web or in apps on Facebook.
5. Save Button: Facebook is expanding its Save Button beyond Facebook to help users save articles, products and videos from all over the web in a private list on Facebook, for future access. This feature takes on services such as Pocket.
6. Live API: Facebook is opening its Facebook Live API to developers and publishers to expand beyond the Facebook app to create live videos. With the Live API, media organisations can incorporate Live into their existing broadcast setup.
7. Rights Manager: Facebook Rights Manager is a set of admin and workflow tools to help publishers and creators manage and protect their video content on Facebook at scale. This will give them increased flexibility and greater control over the use of their video.
8. Account Kit: Account Kit is a acomplementary solution to Facebook Login giving developers the option to let users sign in with their phone number or email address without the need for a password. Account Kit doesn't require people to have a Facebook account to log on.
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