Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirm that the next hardware product from the FB will be smart glasses being develop in collaboration with Ray-Ban owner Essilor Luxottica. The glasses are said to have the iconic frames that Ray-Ban is famous for integrate with AR features.
Zuckerberg announce this during the company’s Q2 2021 earnings call.
The Ray-Ban brand eyewear from Facebook is among the first steps in creating futuristic eyewear that augments the real-world with data or graphics from the Internet.
Technical specifications of the smart glasses to be produce by the Franco-Italian firm were not disclose.
He also said about creating a virtual ‘metaverse’ wherein users will be able to ‘teleport’ into a digital space using AR and VR technologies.
These smart glasses have been rumoure to be under development for quite a while now.
A report last year suggested that engineers in the ‘Project Aria’ team were experimenting with the eyewear.
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