oh so yeah I went on a holiday I mean a business trip a few weeks ago to
California to the Facebook Developer Conference oh it does vibrate the first
time just a bit so the Facebook F8 is what they call it there's the Facebook
developer conference where they announce all of their latest and greatest
innovations and things that developers from around the world have been working
on in the last year if anyone's wondering why it's called F8 it's
actually what the Facebook developers used to call their code sprints
when they were actually building Facebook so they figured if you couldn't
build it in 8 hours it wasn't worth pursuing yeah that's how they do they
move fast and break peace so I'll just take you through some of the key
announcements you've probably heard of a lot of them already but there was a ton
of them and these are just some of the ones that I picked out that were pretty
cool and then I'll tell you about some of the developer tools that they release
that we can now get our hands on and start playing with some of the stuff
that's actually working behind the scenes at Facebook so the first thing
that they really brought home there was that Facebook Messenger has grown in a
huge way over the past year or so there's now 300,000 active messenger
Bots and 8 billion messages are sent every month between people and
businesses on Facebook Messenger so they've thrown a ton of resources
into it they're gonna give it a full facelift and make a simple redesign the
whole interface remove all of the extra stuff like all these games and bits and
pieces that you don't use dark mode so you can sit on messenger all bloody
night if you want and recurring Fame everything that they announced is coming
very soon whatever that means
this was probably the coolest thing that they announced the whole time which was
em translations so em is Facebook's version of Google assistant or Siri or
Amazon Alexa that works within messenger and right now you've probably seen it
it only suggests things like create appointment or tells you a funny sticker
to use or something but what they're using it for now is in the Facebook
marketplace people can talk in at the moment in Spanish and it will
automatically transit translate that to an english-speaking person so this means
in real time you can talk to someone in whatever language you want and they'll
see it in the language that they need to see it in so they're going to keep
rolling that out in facebook marketplace and eventually into messenger so that
just makes the world like a really small place keeping them with using messenger
bots for talking to people they're bringing the experience to your own
website so you can take a Facebook Messenger but and plug it in to your
website with a simple JavaScript embed code and that'll allow your customers to
talk to you on your website for your facebook Messenger and then you can pick
it up pick up that conversation later on whatever device you want say that's
Facebook basically saying don't worry about any other live chatting we can
just handle everything in one spot yeah you can make Zuckerberg faces with
mustaches so they're bringing already in the
Facebook camera you've got some augmented reality type stuff that you
can play with but they're bringing that into facebook Messenger really soon so
right now there are a few brands in the US that are pioneering this with
Facebook to work out the best ways of actually doing this and using it for
something useful other than sticking mustache on your face for no reason so
I'll show you a couple of these examples so we're really cool so first one was
Nike so what they're doing is I've been called a sneaker drop all the cool kids
apparently know that is right Jeremy so what that doing
is every time a new shoe releases it'll come into your facebook Messenger if
you're a friend of the button you'll be able to see the shoe it'll give you some
kind of red carpet experience you can look around the shoe have a bit of a
play and then you can just buy it from right there in messenger say you never
go to that Nike web site just straight for a messenger and the same with
Sephora for makeup so what they've done is they've set up a few different looks
or whatever it is and you can try them on and then click the button and buy all
of that makeup from Sephora without leaving messenger and the other two
brands are working under moment ASA Sankyo and then eventually they're gonna
roll that out across to other developers to be able to do what they want so right
now I'm on the waiting list for that who knows when they'll actually let that
out and they're going to bring the same thing to Instagram so you can but I
think for Instagram it's just gonna be mustaches and hats
this one is quickl apparently Facebook stories is used a lot more than I
thought it was so they're opening that up to developers to integrate their apps
with Facebook stories say right now Spotify and GoPro road-testing it so you
can share what you're listening to you straight into it but yeah once they open
that up we'll be able to connect our apps to Facebook stories without
actually signing into Facebook at all so the app will just take care of that
behind the scenes and push it to your story not too sure how that works just
yet but apparently it does
so this was released last year at f8 which was the crisis updates so you
might have seen it the you can just mark whether you're safe in an earthquake or
something like that what they've done now is updated it a
bit more say that you can actually provide real-time updates on what's
happening at the incident so this will give people real-time information on
road closures and that sort of stuff as well as in they've got right there India
of Bangladesh and Pakistan they've opened it up for blood donations say I
can register as a blood donor if I lived in India and if there's a crisis and
people need blood they can hit the button there and it will actually show
where the nearest blood clinics are and it'll also send people a message that
are a blood donor to say hey can you get to that near his blood clinic and give
us some blood because we're we're running out and the Occulus guy say yeah
this was pretty good they actually gave us one of these so this was a free prize
for attending the conference so it's the first time that someone's made of
completely standalone VR kit so we've had the Samsung gear you put your phone
in but this is the exact same as the oculus rift but completely standalone
doesn't need a PC or anything to hook it up you just stick it on and away go it's
got the exact same specs as the oculus rift but it's got a better display and
it only costs 250 bucks whereas the oculus rift I think is about 500 so it's
a great way to get started with VR makes it more accessible to people on that
note they're making it much easier to develop for VR now they've actually
released a react framework for VR so it's the exact same framework that we're
all used to using react but specifically for VR
they're also working on a new technology called six degrees of freedom which
means you'll be able to do things like if you've used a VR headset you've
probably noticed you can't focus on anything so if you pick up a piece of
paper in VR it's still quite blurry when you bring it to your face with the six
degrees of freedom you'll actually be at a focus on that so the lens will move in
and out with your eye and that headset is actually the same size as the oculus
rift and stand alone say that techs getting better and cheaper it also has
the Santa Cruz one has these hyper realistic renderings of frida spaces so
the next slide is actually a video of a room side-by-side one of them is real
and one of them is via
it's not that easy yeah
okay real one is on the left and the reconstructed is on the right
and the clue who was at the bottom left where you could have seen the shoe of
the person before the original video
yeah say the only way you could tell the difference was the person shoe in the
video it is a little bit harder a little bit easier to tell them apart when you
see a close-up but on the big screen there it looked pretty real so yeah like
I said the augmented reality is coming to Instagram as well so we'll be able to
do the this was a dunk cam thing so you can dunk on your friends if you that way
inclined and they're also revamping the Explorer tab so when you press the
little search but now it's just a mess of different photos from all over the
place that's all gonna be organized by hashtag and also relevant to what you've
been looking at on Instagram this feature is really cool and I think it's
gonna roll out across all of Facebook's platforms is they've got a
machine-learning anti-bullying filter so if you've got it turned on and people
are writing offensive stuff in your comments it automatically just filters
it out and doesn't even make it to your feed
which is a great way of just cleaning up the mess there's Facebook comments cuz
it's pretty nasty on there sometimes if you want to try it out
I'll give you maurices Instagram later
there's also gonna be group video chats coming to Instagram say that makes it a
little bit more what's happening you can hang out with your friends flick through
the Instagram feed while running a group chat at the same time obviously big
thing for Facebook was the whole data privacy thing they basically just turn
around said that they have a huge responsibility now to try and build up
some trust again after the whole Cambridge analytic
scandal which if you don't know what that is then have a Google and waste a
few hours on that they basically just Aaron said we messed up the policies
weren't right and we need to fix that so what they've done is they pulled out a
whole new load of features and some policies that explain a little bit now
so they've rolled out a clear or they haven't rolled this out yet they said
this is coming very soon it's a clear history feature so you can basically
just wipe your Facebook and start again they you can also work out which
websites have been viewing your app data and how they're using it and block
certain websites from using your data
they don't know how far this is off or so we don't know how effective it's
gonna be or whether it's just a bit of smoke and mirrors to make it look like
they're trying to do something political ads gonna be under a lot more scrutiny
so if you want to post a political ad anyone that sees that out is gonna see
exactly who's paying for it which should stop people in Russia paying for them
that sort of thing as well as a stricter verification process to even get a
political Facebook account and then they put it back on us developers like gotta
say we're going T and making it a lot harder to submit a Facebook app so now
if you want to make a facebook Messenger but there's a whole heap of steps you've
got to jump through to get it approved by Facebook every app that's currently
accessing their API is getting pulled for their machine learning and actual
developers and they said they had a team like two and a half thousand people just
going through them everyday which isn't that many people when you think about
how many Facebook apps there are but they're they're making a bit of an
effort and they just basically said that yeah all developers should be taking
responsibility for giving users better control over their privacy with the apps
because regulation will come it's already happened in Europe and now we'll
get it here saying to you so just get started now and yes say they
gave us some new toys to play with which is pretty cool
they've given us pi torch 1.0 which is actually the machine learning and deep
learning algorithms that they use at Facebook for things like the anti
bullying filter making sure that you're getting the right stuff in your newsfeed
the Instagram Instagram Explorer tab all that sort of stuff is powered by this PI
torch product and that's now open sourced so you can start having a play
and getting hold of those deep learning libraries and all that sort of stuff and
using them in your own projects with AI which isn't a new thing it's been around
now for a few years but Facebook bought it about four years ago and that's a
natural language processing tool that will basically if you're making a
messenger but you could say to it book me a table at Old Faithful for tonight
it will then take that apart and grab the keywords book Old Faithful and
tonight and turn that into something that your app can then use so some
variables that your app can use cool thing about that one is it's actually
open source so when you're teaching your app different phrases it's teaching
everybody who's apps different phrases so there it just gets better and better
as more and more people use it Messenger platforms got a whole heap of updates
that we can now use so you've got a handover protocol which means if I'm
making a chatbot and it doesn't understand something that I'd say to it
it will behind-the-scenes kick it off to a human operator that picks it up and
the user was no number wise either that you had done that switchover
the augmented reality platform say that's opened up now for users on
Windows as well for a while as any Mac and yes you can do the a are in
messenger and Facebook and the react 360 stuff as well which is pretty
interesting if you want to build a do some VR in the web and yeah app
reviews are all open again so when the Cambridge analytical thing happened
Facebook shut down all apps now you can start doing it again and it was an
unexpected bonus event on the way home I well on the way back to San Francisco I
met some guy on the train that was going to a meet-up at SLAC and I was like that
sounds sick and it's hang out at slack and drink their bill turned out it was
actually pretty interesting anyway so it was a chap up made up so it was chat bot
developers from all over the world and they just showed off a bunch of the cool
stuff they were doing a lot of it was around activations so for example at the
Facebook conference there to get hold of the swag he had to use the camera in
facebook to activate an AR treasure map and then go around and find the
different treasure points and then submit it via messenger to get a code to
go and pick up your t-shirt and water bottle at the end a lot of the guys
their girls actually were from Austria and Brazil and they actually noticed
that the developers for chat pods are becoming more in demand than the
developers for for the web over there the conversational commerce thing is
picked up huge and yeah so overall it's a really long journey I don't recommend
going to America for a few days it's just stupid but it's totally worth it
there's for two days worth of conference you just take home so much knowledge
heaps of contacts out Facebook and Twitter and slack and a few other of the
big companies that it can just now hit up for help with some stuff and yeah
just wanted to get straight back on the train and start coding when I got out of
it so the big things now I think you're gonna be that have come out of this will
be machine learning and AI the fact that they're open sourcing their tools and
things like that making it more accessible for us we can
get stuck into that get that answer some of our projects
taking a bit more care the data privacy I know we all have email signup forms
and also it's and we don't really think too much about it but we need to start
thinking about how we're storing people's data and what we're doing with
it I think we're going to see more augmented reality and VR projects
happening whether it becoming more accessible to develop and cheaper to
develop their headsets are getting cheaper I think people might start
picking it up a bit more and conversational commerce will start
becoming a being here so conversational commerce is that being able to pick up a
chat but talk to it and complete the transaction all in that one spot without
having to go to a website and buy stuff and that's it there's a picture of DT
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