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TikTok became the most downloaded app on Christmas Day this year and is ahead of rival apps Instagram and Facebook. The platform’s growth momentum is constantly rising, and it looks like it will do just as well, or perhaps better, in 2022 too.

 

CapCut, which is TikTok’s editing app, also made it among the top 10 most downloaded apps, highlighting further popularity of TikTok. Other apps that gained or maintained popularity this year include Snapchat and eCommerce app Shopee.

 




Additionally, download charts based on regions show that Oculus was the most downloaded app in the US on Christmas Day. It makes sense as new Oculus VR headsets were exchanged as Christmas presents among people this year. Mark Zuckerberg has already envisioned the future of Meta in the form of Virtual Reality. It is now evident that Meta has started to own the VR space with increased take-ups of its VR headsets.

TikTok, Oculus, Roblox Become the Most Downloaded Apps on Christmas Day

 


On the 4th of October, all of Facebook’s services including its main platform, Instagram, and Messenger, suddenly stopped working for about six hours. Previously in 2019, a similarly bad outage had happened to Facebook for a period of 24 hours, which affected small businesses and content creators more than anyone else.

 

 

Facebook presented the explanation for the recent outage later in the day, claiming that a configuration issue was the culprit behind it.  A day later, engineers at Facebook have offered further explanation, saying that a routine maintenance interfered in the backbone connection between data centers at Facebook, resulting in the DNS servers going offline.

Facebook Explained the Reason Behind the Recent Massive Outage of its Services

A new login policy has been set to use Oculus headset

Virtual reality has gained enormous popularity in earlier years, which has increased its demand. Oculus is a Facebook-owned VR company that develops VR headsets. Right now, users need a separate Oculus account to use the headsets; however, this support for a separate account will end in October 2020.

Later this year, you will have to sign in for the Oculus account through Facebook only. If you are already a Facebook member, then your Oculus account will be linked with it. But, if one doesn't already have an account, they can still use the headset normally till 2023. However, the older Oculus headsets with non-linked accounts will continue to work, but, some of the apps and games might stop functioning. Oculus used for business purposes will keep supporting a separate login process.

A new login policy has been set to use Oculus headset


Facebook Acquires the Popular Sanzaru Games

Facebook has recently bought the famous VR games developer Sanzaru Games, taking another step forward in the world of Virtual Reality.

Sanzaru Games has put forward a number of popular games including the widely loved VR fantasy and adventure fueled Asgard’s Warth.

Facebook has said that after the success of Asgard’s Warth, the social media platform will be joining hands with Sanzaru Games to put forward more ‘rich’, ‘immersive’ and ‘original’ VR game content.

The news of acquisition came shortly after Facebook acquired ‘Beat Games’ – another VR game developer. Facebook’s acquisition of game makers that have developed successful VR games shows how much the company is inclined towards VR.

While AR still remains relevant, Facebook’s breakthrough in VR can be a huge win for Mark Zuckerberg. And we won’t have to wait for long for this, given the decreasing costs of virtual reality headsets and introduction of innovations like hand-tracking to make VR equipment simpler, VR is set to become more common this year.

And Facebook appears to lead in this domain along with Oculus.

"We’re exploring many ways to accelerate VR, and 2020 is going to be an incredible year for VR game launches and announcements. We are thrilled to have Sanzaru joining our team. This is just one of the many amazing VR announcements we have in store this year," says Facebook.

This isn’t just news for VR game enthusiasts but for marketers as well, the space is definitely worth keeping an eye on!


Facebook Acquires the Popular Sanzaru Games

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