Subway

You can order sandwiches and salads from more than 26,500 Subway restaurants in the U.S. Guests can use the bot to order a sandwich or salad, customise it with their favourite bread; cheese; vegetables; and sauce, and pay on any device that supports Messenger.

To use the bot – Open messenger and tap ‘Start Order.’ The bot will ask for the user’s location to find the closest Subway restaurant. Then, the user is guided through selecting the sub bread, cheese, vegetables and sauce, as well as drinks, cookies or chips. Users choose their payment method: Facebook’s payment system or Masterpass, a digital payment service from Mastercard, and the order will be ready for pick up in 15 minutes or less.

MoneyGram

• Discover tab: Starting to roll out in the US today, right from the home screen, people can find recently used bots, popular experiences and a free-form search field.
• Messenger Codes: New parametric QR codes will let people find out more from a bot for Messenger, just by scanning the code in the Messenger camera.
• Chat Extensions: Enable multiple people to chat with the same business at the same time. Add a bot directly in a group thread, allowing people to virally share bots. Current available: Spotify, TheScore, OpenTable, Food Network, NBA, Wall Street Journal and Kayak — with many more on the way.
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• Rich Gameplay: Adding additional product features like game bots and Rich Gameplay (turn-by-turn games). Challenge your friends to a game in Messenger by tapping the Games tab on the Messenger home screen – which is starting to roll out today in the US.
• More from M: M, the virtual assistant, now makes suggestions in your conversations. Powered by AI, M recognises when people are doing specific tasks. Today M can now offer the ability to order food through delivery.com. Whole experience can be completed in Messenger, including group ordering and payment. The more you use M, the more it will make relevant suggestions to you. This is available in the US.

• Smart Replies for Pages: Ability for Pages to respond to the most frequently asked questions, such as business hours, directions and contact details. Powered by our AI bot engine, Wit.ai, Smart Replies offers an API that enables businesses to create an AI-powered responder to these types of FAQs.
• Parametric Messenger Codes: Generate multiple parametric QR codes for one bot. For example, to track where a code was scanned, or to apply a different QR code for each table at a restaurant.
• Hand-over Protocol: Businesses can work with multiple developers for different experiences on Messenger. For example, a business might want to have a personal shopping bot and also a customer service bot. Different vendors and developers will be able to manage the conversation for the use case the customer is requesting.

Facebook Spaces

VR app that allows you to hang out with avatars of your friends. Available in beta for Oculus Rift and Touch today, and you can download it now from the Oculus Store. Cutomise your look in VR and hangout with friends (in their VR form). Draw in the air with a virtual marker to create anything or find a variety of Facebook content to view with friends in VR, including 360 videos and photos that can transport you to new places. Relive personal memories from your own Timelines, or make new ones.

You can also phone a friend in the real world with Messenger video calling. They can answer your call on their phone to instantly open a window into your virtual world. Also comes with a selfie stick to take photos of your experience and share the memories you create in VR on Facebook.