Each person uses WhatsApp in a different way; some are “addicted” to audio, others prefer to send SMS. And others explore how to use WhatsApp as a social network. What is clear is that many people use WhatsApp to share images and videos they have taken directly with their mobile.
Therefore, it makes sense that the latest Android app development for WhatsApp focuses on how the multimedia content in chats. It’s not a revolutionary change, but it should help us better choose the images and how they are going to be displayed in the chat.
Moreover, the latest WhatsApp update also includes references to virtual reality, and everything indicates that there will be a version of WhatsApp for Meta Quest where we can use the application in a three-dimensional environment. Very futuristic, although it is not yet clear how it will be implemented.
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Starting with the new media selector, the great novelty is an indicator that tells us how many images or videos we have selected; It will be an “enhanced” experience, in the sense that we will be able to keep a simple count of the number of images we are going to share in the chat. This can solve one of the big problems with sharing images on WhatsApp, which is that there are so many of them that it becomes difficult to navigate through the chat history. Maybe if we understand the number of images we share, it will be easier to choose the really important ones.
Although a number may seem too insignificant, it can change the way we share media. And it is that the numbers also Iindicate the order in which the images will be displayed. WhatsApp displays the images in the selected order, but it can be difficult to know which one we chose first if there are many; the number indicates not only the number of images we have chosen, but also the order in which they will be displayed in the chat.
The new WhatsApp image picker
The second novelty is more subtle, but may have more significance for the future of WhatsApp. In WABetaInfo discovered references to the Meta Quest, Meta’s virtual reality device, the third version of which was presented at the beginning of June. The novelty lies in the possibility of pair one of these virtual reality glasses to our WhatsApp account, to be able to access it in virtual reality.
This indicates that there will be a version of WhatsApp for virtual reality, something that is not entirely surprising but has not been officially announced until now. In Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous metaverse presentation, there was small references to WhatsApp, with its icon appearing in some menus. The idea was that this could be integrated into the experience, perhaps allowing us to invite our WhatsApp contacts into a 3D room. For the moment, the possibility of associating the Meta Quest indicates that WhatsApp will probably have a function in virtual reality.
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