After Facebook bought Oculus, it partnered with Samsung to manufacture the augmented reality (AR) headset which the social media giant has started to ship, reports Techcrunch.
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Facebook may already be leading the race to ship a viable virtual reality headset for consumers with its $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR, but the world’s biggest social network is not stopping there when it comes to exploring different modes of reality. He explains, “It’s kind of seamless”.
While virtual reality is focused squarely on creating immersive entertainment experiences, augmented reality could lend itself to thousands of more practical applications in the real world. This was confirmed by Michael Abrash, the chief scientist at Oculus VR who notes that augmented reality still has quite a ways to go. Maybe it’ll be contacts [or glasses].
Facebook won’t be the only company working on augmented reality, but it certainly has the ability to become a juggernaut in the space. You’ll have something on and it’ll be VR and AR as you choose”, but on those aforementioned technical hurdles “But right now the VR tech is past the knee of the curve.
Augmented reality represents an extra opportunity for fb than digital reality. There are an entire host of challenges the way you do the optics and suggests and get pix onto the eyes, how you might have anything that’s socially proper and cozy all day. Besides Facebook startup Magic Leap – which got a large investment from Google – and Google Glass are also working on AR. By definition, AR is supposed to augment a user’s vision and give them the capability to do more with the world around them, and Facebook can use that to power a whole suite of new experiences. People are excited about VR and in due course of time there will be millions of units offering VR, just like how popular Smartphones are today.
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As anyone with a 3DS knows, the technology is not new.
