Facebook Messenger will make available to users a series of backgrounds created in 360 degrees by artists from minority communities to claim diversity and creativity in art.
Every month a new fund created by a young artist belonging to a social minority will be released
These artists, selected together with the Facebook Open Arts initiative -a Facebook initiative for artists and designers of all kinds of origins- will create funds that can be used in video calls through Facebook Messenger and also in Messenger Rooms meetings, where up to 50 people can meet without time limit. These rooms can be created both from Facebook and from Messenger, your instant messaging app, and Instagram.
Facebook will release a new 360-degree background each month by a young artist. The first of the creations is now available and has been created by Ana Serrano, a Mexican-American designer who has tried to reflect her two cultural identities with an eclectic vision of the city in which she lives, Los Angeles.
To use the background created by Serrano, what you must do is start a video call from Facebook Messenger in the usual way, or create a Messenger Rooms through Facebook or Instagram.
Once inside the video call or the room, you just have to click on the «Effects» icon in the view of the caller and select “Funds”. There you will have to look for the one called “Down the Street”, which is what the fund created by Serrano is called. In video calls you can also find by accessing the Facebook Messenger camera options.
In the coming months, until June, Facebook will launch a new 360-degree fund each month. With them, you can experiment with your video calls and see how the background changes as you walk or move sideways, instead of remaining static.
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