Facebook taps Ray-Ban makers to help develop AR glasses for replacing your smartphone, report says
5 years, 3 months ago

Facebook taps Ray-Ban makers to help develop AR glasses for replacing your smartphone, report says

Daily Mail  

Facebook is still firmly in the race to develop augmented reality glasses according to a new report. Earlier this year reports from Business Insider confirmed that the social media giant moved hundreds of employees from its Facebook Reality Labs research division to a totally new unit devoted to augmented reality hardware. The team was reportedly being helmed by Michael Abrash, an AR/VR exec, as well as Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth, Facebook's vice president of augmented reality and virtual reality.. As exemplified by the recent collaboration between Facebook Luxottuca, the glasses are expected to be more minimalist and light than AR headsets like Microsoft's Hololens or the Magic Leap. File photo In an interview last year, Ficus Kirkpatrick, Facebook's head of augmented reality, confirmed the company's AR ambitions in an interview with TechCrunch. FACEBOOK'S AR GLASSES PATENT Facebook's VR arm Oculus patented an augmented reality system for glasses that would allow wearers to see virtual objects - and presumably Facebook posts and notifications - in the real world around them.

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Apple Might Soon Give Meta A Tough Competition With Its Own Smart Glasses, Here's What We Know
2 months ago

Apple Might Soon Give Meta A Tough Competition With Its Own Smart Glasses, Here's What We Know

ABP News  

Apple is reportedly considering entering the smart glasses market, as the tech giant begins an internal study into the current landscape of wearable glasses. The initiative, which has been given the project name "Atlas," involves gathering feedback from Apple employees on various smart glasses available in the market, according to a report by Bloomberg. Apple’s smart glasses would also compete …

Meta Orion: The smart glasses from Facebook's parent company are pointless.
55 years ago

Meta Orion: The smart glasses from Facebook's parent company are pointless.

Slate  

In recent years, I have resisted the siren call of the Apple Watch, a device designed to keep me somehow more tethered to the internet than I already, woefully, am. This is a long way of saying that I have little interest in glasses, feel strange wearing them for fashion when others need them to see the world, and Big …

Meta’s first smart glasses with display may release in 2025; AR glasses in 2027
1 year, 10 months ago

Meta’s first smart glasses with display may release in 2025; AR glasses in 2027

The Hindu  

A company presentation of Meta’s AR/VR roadmap revealed that the Facebook owner is potentially planning to release its first smart glasses with a display in 2025, and its first augmented reality glasses in 2027, reported tech outlet The Verge on Wednesday. Meta’s vice president for AR, Alex Himel, said during the presentation that the company is also developing a smartwatch …

Mark Zuckerberg Teases Wearable Tech With Neural Interface: What It Means
2 years, 8 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg Teases Wearable Tech With Neural Interface: What It Means

News 18  

PARIS: Meta Platforms Inc's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, on Wednesday teased a new smart glasses project with EssilorLuxottica, posting a photo of the eyewear company's chairman sporting a prototype of a neural interface wristband – designed for directing other devices. "Here Leonardo is using a prototype of our neural interface EMG wristband that will eventually let you control your glasses …

Apple Glasses effect? Google may be working on own AR smart glasses
3 years ago

Apple Glasses effect? Google may be working on own AR smart glasses

India Today  

Apple is making some serious inroads in establishing itself as an AR company by reportedly hiring key people from Meta. But while the first implementation of Apple’s AR technology is expected sometime in 2022 in the form of AR Glasses, Google is upping the ante with its new project. According to a report, Google is working on a new set …

Facebook launches ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ smart glasses
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook launches ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ smart glasses

The Hindu  

Facebook has launched Ray-Ban Stories, smart glasses that will enable users to take photos, record videos, listen to music and answer phone calls without even taking out their smartphone. The tech giant built the smart glasses in partnership with the European eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica, Ray-Ban’s parent firm. People wearing the smart glasses can either use the physical capture button or …

Facebook Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Bring Cameras, Speakers, Privacy Concerns, But No AR
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Bring Cameras, Speakers, Privacy Concerns, But No AR

News 18  

Facebook has launched its first set of smart glasses, in partnership with eyewear maker Ray-Ban. The Facebook and Ray-Ban smart glasses are named the Ray-Ban Stories, and there is no AR. In what came as a disappointment to many enthusiasts, the smart glasses from Facebook don’t let users browse Facebook, shop, or play games. The smart glasses also include a …

Facebook Smart Glasses Made In Partnership With Ray-Ban Coming Tomorrow: What We Know
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook Smart Glasses Made In Partnership With Ray-Ban Coming Tomorrow: What We Know

News 18  

Social media giant Facebook has partnered with sunglasses brand Ray-Ban to create a pair of sunglasses, and it is revealing the pair tomorrow. The announcement coincids several teaser videos from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook?s virtual and augmented reality head Andrew Bosworth. The posts from Facebook show POV video clips from Bosworth and Zuckerberg, including Bosworth playing golf and …

Snap Summit 2021: Snap's latest Spectacles can overlay AR Lenses onto the real world
3 years, 7 months ago

Snap Summit 2021: Snap's latest Spectacles can overlay AR Lenses onto the real world

Firstpost  

The smart AR glasses are not up for commercial sale and will just be available for AR developers. At the Snap Summit event 2021, Snap Inc announced the fourth generation Spectacles. Dual 3D waveguide displays and a 26.3 degree field of view overlay Lenses on the world, right before your eyes”, reads the Snap Inc blog post. #SnapPartnerSummithttps://t.co/r4XnSC886z pic.twitter.com/4bPi49KE7n — …

Snap's Latest Spectacles Are True AR Glasses That You Can't Buy: All You Need to Know
3 years, 7 months ago

Snap's Latest Spectacles Are True AR Glasses That You Can't Buy: All You Need to Know

News 18  

American social media company Snap has announced its new Snap Spectacles – the company’s latest augmented reality glasses. The new Snap Spectacles are Snap’s first true AR glasses but they come with a big catch – you can’t buy them yet. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled the new Spectacles with a demo that showed virtual butterflies fluttering over colourful plants …

Facebook is developing a wrist sensor that will let you type on any surface
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook is developing a wrist sensor that will let you type on any surface

Daily Mail  

Facebook is working on a wearable wrist sensor linked to augmented reality glasses that would allow you to type on any surface with a simple tap or snap of your fingers. Facebook is working on a wearable wrist sensor linked to augmented reality glasses that would allow you to type on any surface with a simple tap or snap of …

Facebook announces partnership with Ray-Ban to launch AR smart glasses, to debut in 2021
4 years, 3 months ago

Facebook announces partnership with Ray-Ban to launch AR smart glasses, to debut in 2021

Firstpost  

Facebook will be starting to test the smart glasses in the real world with company employees and contractors to better areas like privacy, video recordings and design. Facebook has revealed that they will be releasing its first pair of consumer ‘smart glasses’ as a branded Ray-Ban product. Facebook has revealed that consumer smart glasses will be a single step in …

Facebook Wants to Turn Your Ray-Ban Smart, Launch Branded AR Glasses in 2021
4 years, 3 months ago

Facebook Wants to Turn Your Ray-Ban Smart, Launch Branded AR Glasses in 2021

News 18  

During this year’s Facebook Connect, the social media giant’s annual AR/VR conference, Facebook announced that it will release a pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses in 2021. With EssilorLuxottica we have an equally ambitious partner who’ll lend their expertise and world-class brand catalogue to the first truly fashionable smart glasses,” Vice President of Facebook’s Reality Labs Andrew Bosworth said in …

Apple Watch on Your Face: Zuckerberg Says Rumoured Apple Glass AR Tech is Not 'Compelling'
4 years, 3 months ago

Apple Watch on Your Face: Zuckerberg Says Rumoured Apple Glass AR Tech is Not 'Compelling'

News 18  

It isn’t everyday that you have a Big Tech CEO taking a rather well phrased dig at a fellow tech giant. Yesterday, on the sidelines of unveiling Facebook’s new Oculus Quest 2 untethered portable AR headset, company chief Mark Zuckerberg seemingly took a shot at Apple’s purported augmented reality project, which has appeared in leaks as Apple Glass. Talking about …

Facebook teaming up with Ray-Ban to work on Augmented Reality glasses: Report
5 years, 3 months ago

Facebook teaming up with Ray-Ban to work on Augmented Reality glasses: Report

Firstpost  

The AR glasses that Facebook is now working on are expected to replace smartphones in the near future. Facebook has been working on augmented reality glasses for a while now. The report also suggests that these glasses are expected to replace smartphones. Apart from these glasses, it was earlier reported that Facebook is also working on an AI voice assistant …

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