{"id":564,"date":"2018-10-26T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nethues.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2022-07-19T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T12:31:48","slug":"facebooks-agenda-of-ar-glasses-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nethues.com\/blog\/facebooks-agenda-of-ar-glasses-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Agenda Of AR Glasses &#8211; Confirmed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you heard that right. Facebook has finally started building its augmented reality glasses.<\/p>\n<p>When AR has reached almost every corner then how can Facebook, a name so prominent, be left behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We want glasses or eventually contact lenses that look and feel normal but that let us overlay all kinds of information and digital objects over the real world\u2018, <strong>CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong> forecasted during Facebook\u2019s annual conference in April 2017.<\/p>\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-566\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-566 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nethues.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mark-Zuckerberg-AR-Glasses.jpg\" alt=\"Mark-Zuckerberg-AR-Glasses\" width=\"680\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nethues.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mark-Zuckerberg-AR-Glasses.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.nethues.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mark-Zuckerberg-AR-Glasses-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg said at F8 2017 that AR glasses were 5 to 7 years away<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This has been a thing of the past. What\u2019s the latest update? Let\u2019s know.<\/p>\n<p>In an event conducted by <strong>Techcrunch<\/strong> on AR\/VR, \u00a0Facebook\u2019s\u2002\u00a0<strong>AR head Ficus Kirkpatrick<\/strong> on being asked about building AR glasses said: \u201cYeah! Well of course we\u2019re working on it. We are building hardware products. We\u2019re going forward on this . . . We want to see those glasses come into reality, and I think we want to play our part in helping to bring them there.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-565\" style=\"width: 571px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-565 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.nethues.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/10\/facebook-AR-headset-smart-glasses-designboom.png\" alt=\"facebook-AR-headset-smart-glasses\" width=\"571\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nethues.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/10\/facebook-AR-headset-smart-glasses-designboom.png 806w, https:\/\/www.nethues.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/10\/facebook-AR-headset-smart-glasses-designboom-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nethues.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/10\/facebook-AR-headset-smart-glasses-designboom-768x547.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook AR glasses patent application<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On being asked about the announcement of the product, he added \u201c We have no product to announce right now. But we have a lot of very talented people doing really, really compelling cutting-edge research that we hope plays a part in the future of headsets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the discussion, <strong>Techcrunch<\/strong> concluded by telling the people that \u201cThis is the clearest confirmation we\u2019ve received yet from Facebook about its plans for AR glasses. The product could be Facebook\u2019s opportunity to own a mainstream computing device on which its software could run after a decade of being beholden to smartphones built, controlled and taxed by Apple and Google.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irrespective of knowing the minutest details and the final launch date, we all are excited to know the confirmation of AR glasses by Facebook. 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