AR tops the bill at F8 with Camera Effects Platform beta and launch of VR project Facebook Spaces

Facebook used this year’s F8 keynote address to showcase its augmented reality (AR) initiative, lauded as “the first mainstream augmented reality platform” that will employ artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) to help developers build games and apps based on its technology, amid a host of other announcements.   
Also included today (April 18) at the social network’s two-day, flagship developer conference were developments regarding: its AR Creat