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Oculus Go Complete Walkthrough

Facebook just released the Oculus Go, their first ever standalone VR headset. This means no wires, no phone in your face either, just a lightweight headset with Wifi connectivity and a controller that you can use to view 360 content from. Since this is a new piece of tech that I thought was pretty interesting (and that you might also be interested in) I figured it was time to do a complete walkthrough. If you aren’t familiar a complete walkthrough is where I go through all the Oculus Go specs, features, etc. to try and give you as much info […]

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Everything Facebook Announced at F8 in a Bulleted List

Facebook’s annual developer conference is happening right now and considering the current climate regarding Facebook’s data and privacy concerns, it was bound to be an interesting one for sure. For those that don’t feel like watching the entire Keynote (knock yourself out here if you do), I put together a quick bulleted list of what was announced. Here are the biggest things that were announced. FaceDate: This sounded like a joke to me based on the name at first, but nope, it’s real. Facebook is starting a dating app on Facebook that allows you to create a profile only visible

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How to Turn off Read Receipts on All Your Social Networks

There’s one feature on a lot of messaging apps that’s one main feature is to basically get you in trouble: read receipts. While it’s great to be able to know if the person you’re talking to has read your messages, it’s never a benefit to you for others to know this. “He clearly saw the message! Why hasn’t he responded?!” It’s because of sentences like the above, that most people I know have read receipts off on all their supported apps (except maybe my mom). And, sure, while not everyone receiving messages from you will say things like the above, I

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How to Disable Chat Heads in Facebook Messenger (Because It’s Evil)

Chat heads are one of those things that I can only assume Facebook created to make sure they could sufficiently annoy you when not using the app to go back into it. There is never a time that while I’m using my phone I need a notification and a floating head of my friend messaging me over what I was originally trying to do. AMIRITE? It’s pretty easy to figure out why Facebook added this feature to the messenger app–the longer you spend in the app the more time for you to be shown ads and the more revenue Facebook can

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How to Disable Live Notifications

OK, so the live craze is great and all. I love the idea of using live video on social to show something that might be important to show in the moment: news, an event, an announcement, hell, even a live show you might do. Sure! What I don’t want to see live, is a drunk person showing me the inside of a poorly lit bar while screaming out the wrong lyrics to whatever song happens to be playing. As with any new tech/social feature, there’s an etiquette that isn’t exactly inherent at launch, but instead, needs to be learned slowly

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How to Live Stream Nintendo Switch Games (Complete Guide)(Video)

Video game streaming is huge. And it’s easy really, you can easily connect your computer to a streaming service, boot up your game and a mic, and you’re on your way to Twitch stardom. But what if you really want to stream games from a device that isn’t your computer? What if you want to stream from a Nintendo Switch, for example? (ZELDA?? MARIO KART??) Well, so long as you have the right equipment, it’s not as hard as it might sound. Here’s how to stream games from the Nintendo Switch. Things You’ll Need Switch and its dock. Capture card

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How to Use Facebook Live 360 on an iPhone (Video)

Facebook today announced their new Facebook Live 360 feature which compliments their Facebook Live product they’ve been pushing by allowing you to now stream 360 video live. Which let’s you almost teleport your Facebook friends directly to where you are and if they have a VR headset that effect is even more pronounced. To get started with it, it’s actually not that hard to do but really quick I’m going to go over how to get it working on an iPhone. So, for this tutorial I’m going to use the Insta360 Nano camera as they’re one of the launch partners

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How to Sync Facebook Contact Photos to the iPhone (Video)

Maybe it’s OCD but I can’t stand looking at the messaging app on my iPhone and seeing letters where people’s faces should be. Android, at least at some point, always had the ability to sync my Facebook contact photos with my phone contacts and frankly, it annoys me that both of the most popular operating systems now both can’t do that automatically. Who pissed off who to stop that integration?! I’m looking at you, Zuckerberg. Thankfully though, there is still a way to sync your contact photos on your iPhone with their Facebook profile photo –you just need to use

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Everything You Need to Know from Facebook F8

Facebook just concluded their developer conference called F8 (is it slightly creepy that that spells fate?). During this event Mark Zuckerberg, laid out Facebook’s 10 year plan for world domination roadmap for the company that showed their products like WhatsApp and Instagram all the way to their VR aspirations and their plans to use drones and other means to make sure everyone can access the internet (and their products, of course). Since it is a developer event, Facebook kicked things off with some new developer tools. Login Tools Facebook announced a few tools for developers to help with logging into

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Samsung Announces the S7, S7 Edge & Gear 360

Samsung had a crazy, VR-filled event today in Barcelona to announce the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, their latest new flagship devices. Here’s a quick run down of everything you need to know about what was announced at the event. Read More: Check out the LG Event wrap up. Samsung Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge Two varieties, smaller S7 5.1 inch vs the larger S7 Edge 5.5 inch with the curved display we’ve seen in the S6 Edge. Improved Edge panel to swipe to get to apps. Opened the Edge panel as an SDK for developers to use to

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What Happens to Your Facebook When You Die? Here’s How to Choose Its Fate

As technology becomes more and more entrenched in our daily lives, the need for us to consider what will become of our online presence after we pass away becomes a bigger and bigger priority. A few years ago, Google paved the way by allowing Gmail users to, as they put it, “plan for [their] digital afterlife” by designating a friend or family member to be their Inactive Account Manager when they die. Now Facebook has joined their ranks, announcing last week that they are introducing a similar feature, calling it a Legacy Contact. Though this may seem bizarre and somewhat

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