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Early this morning, on the first day of Facebook's annual developer conference F8, the company has launched many new features for its apps.
However, the Facebook smart speaker, which has been rumored to be very active, has not been unveiled.
Speakers that did not appear
There are more revelations about these two unreleased products.
First, Facebook is riddled with scandals in the United States, and these two speakers may be "exported to domestic sales".
Facebook plans to sell its smart speakers overseas first, before releasing it in the U.S., according to two people familiar with the matter, obtained by CNBC. Because both U.S. users and regulators have been staring at Facebook's privacy issues lately.
Second, there is more news about the smart assistants on these two speakers.
In fact, the previous fragmentary rumors can roughly spell out the appearance of these two smart speakers.
As early as the end of July last year, there were already rumors that Facebook was developing smart speakers, and there were already prototype devices, which began to be tested in some homes.
There are two smart speakers that Facebook is developing, one is the Fiona that may be more common, and the other is the Aloha equipped with a camera and a 13-15-inch touch screen. It is equivalent to a Tmall elf, a small degree at home. The prices for the two devices are around $100 and a few hundred dollars, respectively.
Both devices feature an intelligent voice assistant and connect directly to Facebook Messenger.
According to the latest revelations, this intelligent voice assistant is code-named M and is closely related to the chatbot M that Facebook previously provided on Messenger. In January, Facebook shut down the M chatbot feature on Messenger, but the project survived and turned into a voice-command-enabled assistant.
However, the final name of this assistant may not be called M, but a word starting with "M". Sources say it may be called "Marvin".
What exactly will Facebook's smart speakers look like?
In April of this year, a patent document exposed the appearance of one of the suspected devices. From the patent sketch, it looks like this:
F8 Day One Review
On the first day of F8 without smart speakers, what new technologies and new features were announced? Let’s review the qubits with you:
10年产品路线图
在F8上，小扎亮出了Facebook未来10年的产品路线图。
现在，这家公司的主打产品正在从Facebook和Instagram两款之外，继续扩张，聊天的WhatsApp和Messenger、视频、搜索、群组、Workplace、Marketplace等原本包含在Facebook中的功能，也将有更高的地位。
而从长远看，Facebook会从技术或者功能的角度来布局自己的产品，他们在未来10年中要专注的，一是创立之初就有的初心：连接一切，二是人工智能技术，三是虚拟现实和增强现实。
FB旗下App们的新功能
这些我们可能不太熟悉的App，今天也推出了很多新功能，包括：
Facebook用户可以删除浏览历史了，拒绝FB收集自己的数据，还推出了在线约会服务。
Instagram推出新的“Explore(发现)”页面，新增视频聊天功能，可以单聊也可以群聊，给图像加特效的AR Camera Effects也开始支持Instagram。
联合创始人Jan Koum刚刚离职的WhatsApp，在Facebook体系中依然在发展着。这款聊天应用中的视频通话开始支持群聊。
他们还“完全重新设计”了Messenger，让发消息更简单。Facebook通过智能助理M，在这款App的P2P电商功能Marketplace里提供聊天翻译，另外，这款App也同样开始支持AR Camera Effects平台。
Oculus Go
F8首日，观众们掌声最响亮的一刻大概要数小扎宣布Oculus Go开始发售，而且现场每人会免费获得一台的时候。
这是Oculus首款独立的VR眼罩，售价定为199美元起，支持1000多款App、游戏和体验。现在去Oculus官网、Amazon、百思买等渠道，就能买到一台了。
当然，是国际版。
Oculus Go还有中国版，由小米负责国内运营，会在今年夏天开始发售，售价还没有公布。
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