Facebook launches Messenger Platform 2.3 with web chat plugin customization

Facebook today introduced additional ways to customize Messenger conversations taking place on websites — like the ability to add a persistent menu and incorporate more user information. Messenger Platform can be used to deploy automated bots that accept payments, deploy AI for natural language interactions, and exchange messages with humans and bots associated with a […]

Oculus redesigns the Rift interface for Touch and customization

From the stage at Oculus Connect 4, Oculus’ Nate Mitchell just announced Rift Core 2.0. It’s designed around Touch, offering a motion-control-focused interface that apes a lot of what hackers have been doing with BigScreen. The big addition is Dash, which as its name implies, is a dashboard accessible from within any VR app or […]