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Facebook launches Spaces social virtual reality platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook announced today that it is launching a beta platform for social virtual reality dubbed Facebook Spaces.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement of the early version Spaces at its F8 developer conference in San Jose, California. It is available to try out on the Early Access part of the Oculus store today, and it shows how Facebook’s ambitions for VR go far beyond playing games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.