The Facebook developer conference, better known as F8, is held these days in San José. The event usually serves as an occasion for the company to present some of the news that will reach its pages or applications. Although this edition comes at a key moment, with the company in the middle of the controversy over its handling of privacy. In addition to the recent departure of the founder of WhatsApp.
There was quite a bit of anticipation at what Mark Zuckerberg was going to say in his speech. But the founder of Facebook has played it safe in this regard. Has promised more security And that a scandal like Cambridge Analytica will never happen again. Although he has left us more news.
Since WhatsApp and Instagram have been some of the protagonists of this event. Specifically, a function has been revealed that will reach the two applications owned by Facebook. Both applications will soon have group video calls.
This has been confirmed by Zuckerberg himself. So it is already official that both will have support for this function. Up to a total of 4 people / users will be able to converse at the same time in one of these video calls. The limit appears to be the same for the two applications.
In the case of Instagram, it is the first time that a function of this type has been introduced. It has also been known that the first tests with this function in the social network are already being carried out. So it shouldn't take too long to arrive officially.
WhatsApp will also receive the function, although in this case it seems that there is no proof at the moment. It has been said that they will start in a few months. But so far nothing specific is known in terms of dates. So we will have to wait a few more weeks.