Augmented Reality in Social Networking

Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook in Oculus Connected Conference, demonstrated a new SocialReality Experience. Even if our friends are geographically separated, it is possible to play chess, play cards or even play a sword game with them with the aid of Augmented Reality. It is also possible to take a Selfie with a Facebook friend who is not physically with you. Also it is possible to express your emotions-happy ,sad, anger, disappointment, fear to your Facebook friends by using Sentinel Analysis or by manually incorporating the commands. Mark Zuckerberg depicted Augmented Reality in the conference as, "This is a new communication platform by feeling truly present, you can share undamaged spaces and experiences with people in your life."

Figure 1 Ability to take selfie with a Facebook friend knowing her details (Photo Courtesy:Facebook)

Figure 2 Mark Zuckerberg, demonstrating the application of Augmented Reality in Facebook (Photo Courtesy:Facebook)

Facebook makes the smart phone camera, the first Augmented Reality Platform. Zuckerberg pointed out that “Even if we were a little slow to add cameras to all our apps, I’m confident we’re going to push this augmented reality platform forward,” in his speech at a conference. “As silly as these effects might seem, they’re actually really important and meaningful because they allow us to share what’s important to us on a daily basis”, as said by Zuckerberg. At F8 Conference, Mark Zuckerberg outlined three categories of Augmented Realityas:

· Information - Adding information atop the real world (e.g., directions to a motel nearby and the availability of food over there)

· Digital Objects - Adding digital objects onto the real world (e.g., a virtual posting on a kid's tiffin box)

· Enrichment - Enriching real objects with reviews, filters, edits, etc.