News

Facebook Trials Floating Videos on News Feed

Facebook is testing a new update which allows you to view videos whilst scrolling through the News Feed. This concept is supposed to improve multi-tasking capabilities and establish Facebook’s renewed focus on video playback. So how does it all work? Simply click on the square icon next to the full screen command and the video will wrap over your News Feed. Additionally, you can move the video around to make reading Status Updates much easier. However, the video is locked to the current webpage so navigating to someone’s profile or posting a comment will make the content disappear.

While the transitions are smooth and user-friendly, I’m not entirely convinced by its usefulness. Watching any type of video footage requires your full attention and glancing at a small window whilst reading texts seems an overly complex way to do things. Even more so, given the usually brief length of Facebook videos. Admittedly, I’m not fond of Facebook’s video integration and feel it clutters the UI. For instance, the auto-playback of videos on mute are quite obnoxious. I understand this can be disabled in user settings, but an opt-in process would have been the better choice

Do you ever watch videos whilst performing other tasks?

Thank you TheNextWeb for providing us with this information.

John Williamson

Disqus Comments Loading...

Recent Posts

NVIDIA Reveals New Games That Support DLSS 3 and Ray Tracing

NVIDIA has revealed the new games that support its latest graphics card technologies. We're talking…

8 hours ago

Apple M4 Max Outperforms RTX 4070 and RTX 3080 Ti in Blender Test

The Apple M4 Max, the high-end option among the new Apple processors that launched in…

8 hours ago

Intel Core Ultra 200 Non-K CPUs Spotted in Canadian Retail Listing

As Intel prepares to expand its Core Ultra 200 series of processors with “non-K” models,…

8 hours ago

Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Thriving Even More Than a Year Ago, Larian Studios Credits Mods

Baldur's Gate 3 is a success, and it seems redundant to say so, but what…

8 hours ago

The Callisto Protocol on PS5 Pro Achieves 8K and 30fps With Ray Tracing

The Callisto Protocol on PS5 Pro reaches 8K at 30 fps with ray tracing enabled:…

9 hours ago

Sony Reportedly in Talks to Acquire FromSoftware’s Parent Company, Kadokawa

Buying studios is a fairly common thing these days. However, in recent years, we've seen…

9 hours ago