"TechCrunch" : Facebook shakes up Live with new social chat features

as informed in Facebook has already announced that its AR camera effects platform will be coming to Live, an announcement today brings a couple of other changes to the platform surrounding social interactions in Live: Live Chat with Friends and Live With. In addition to the Live Chat with Friends feature, Facebook is launching a feature that will let you go live with another friend in a side-by-side conversation. Facebook is already testing Live Chat with Friends in a few countries and says they'll be making it more widely available later this summer. Facebook Live might be about bringing the entire community together around events, but sometimes you just want to know the reactions of your buddies. It's a way for Facebook to dial-in the wide-reaching Live platform and make it more personal for users.


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Facebook Adds New Live Features To Keep You Closer To Your Friends


Facebook Adds New Live Features To Keep You Closer To Your Friends
Today it unveiled a few new ways for you to interact with your friends while you're watching or broadcasting a Live video: Live Chat With Friends and Live With. Facebook says that people comment 10 times more on Facebook Live videos than they do on videos that are just posted to the platform. Now, using Live Chat With Friends, you'll be able to invite friends to join you in a private conversation about a Live broadcast that's taking place. Since launching in 2015, Facebook Live has been a huge focus for the social network. Live WithLive With is a feature you may have already seen being used by some celebrities on Facebook.

Facebook Live gets a social boost and a path to VR


Facebook Live gets a social boost and a path to VR
This could boost watch time, the number of viewers, and interactions with Facebook Live content. More importantly, these two features also open up a new use case for Facebook Live. Although it's in an early stage (Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his VR goal was 5-10 years away), there are clear dovetails between this system and the new social Facebook Live features. Here are some key takeaways from the report:This has been an important foundational year for the VR market. The highly fragmented VR market today will eventually narrow as the market grows and matures.


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