Facebooks Michael Booth answers our questions about VR social networks
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At Oculus Connect conference yesterday, we got a glimpse of what Facebook was after when it got into virtual reality: a VR environment where you can feel like youre hanging out in the same physical space as your friends, complete with realistic body language and emotional responses. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared in virtual reality with some of his colleagues to play cards, travel to a simulation of Mars, and hold a video call with his wife.
One of those colleagues was Michael Booth, Facebooks product manager for social VR. Booth comes from the world of game development, but what hes helping to build now isnt just a Facebook-owned massive multiplayer VR game its a new place thats eventually supposed to connect to every…