Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), declined -1.47% to $104.56, during its last trading session.
The social networking company Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), remains on plan to ship Oculus Rift in the first quarter, but the company delayed the launch of Oculus Touch, according to The Street
Oculus is a virtual reality company that Facebook attained last year for $2 billion.
Oculus declared on Thursday that it remains on-plan to launch pre-orders for its virtual reality system known as Rift. The product is predictable to cost at least $350, USA Recently reports.
Additionally, Facebook delayed the release of Touch, which is a motion controller, until the second half of 2016. The product was originally supposed to launch at the same time as Rift, Tech Crunch reports.
“On Touch hardware, we’ve made noteworthy advances in ergonomics, and we’re implementing many changes that make Touch even more comfortable, reliable, and natural. We’re also implementing changes that improve hand pose recognition,” Oculus said in a statement on Thursday. “We’re also outputting larger numbers of pre-production runs, which means we can get a lot more Touch hardware in the hands of developers who need it.”
On the other news report, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) made a number of significant improvements to its products in 2015, introducing a wide variety of new features that gave users more and better ways to interact with their friends and family. But some were better than others, and in 2015, one stood above the rest, according to Fool
In June, Facebook introduced a new app, Moments. Although it technically exists as a stand-alone product, Moments is a mere extension of Facebook’s core social network — a new feature offered as a separate app. At least for now, it requires users to sign in with an existing Facebook account, and limits Moments connections to their friends on the social network.
Some WhatsApp users still facing service disruption
WhatsApp, a messaging service owned by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), said some users were still facing issues while accessing its messaging service., according to Reuters
The problems were primarily centered in the UK and Western Europe, according to DownDetector, a website that provides realtime overview of Internet and mobile services.
“We appear to be having issues again,” a WhatsApp spokesman told Reuters.
The company had earlier said it had completely restored the service.
WhatsApp, however, did not provide any details on what led to the outage, which began shortly after 4.30 p.m. UK time on New Year’s eve. Reuters Report







