Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg views AR and VR as the next platform after the smartphone, saying it will define the 2030s in his annual goal-setting letter, posted to his profile page last Thursday night.
By enabling people to be "present" anywhere, AR glasses woud provide access and social mobility regardless of a user's location.
Developing its own AR glasses also marks the social giant's latest hardware effort: Last year, Facebook advanced further into hardware, expanding its Portal screened smart speaker (Portal, Portal+, and Portal TV) and Oculus VR headset lineups (Rift, Quest, and Go).
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