Speaking at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, Zuck was pretty excited about the prospect of augmented reality, although he did admit: ‘It’s a bit further out’. Augmented reality, on the other hand, is a live view of a real-world physical environment in which the elements are augmented by computer-generated inputs, such as graphics, sound, video, or Global Positioning System data, in order to present the user with a modified version of the real world. It will let people experience intimate moments, such as an example Zuckerberg gave was giving family members the opportunity to watch a child take its first steps. He said AR was very interesting and that it would be something that everyone would use provided that it worked well.
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Another Facebook official, Michael Abrash, says that the headset has basically arrived as he points out that virtual reality (VR) is “past the knee of the curve”. For AR, it’s harder. For Abrash, the idea is to have an AR device on such as contacts that would make the transition between VR and AR seamless. Ultimately, it might overlay that information correct on the sector itself so you could appear up out of your reveal, and alternatively seem via it. In early 2014, Facebook bought Oculus Virtual Reality for a tidy $2 billion United States dollars. With VR as is, the Oculus Rift is created to be an immersive experience that essentially helps the user shut out the rest of the world and focus only on the experience. Of course, this is all coming from a man who declared that privacy is dead, or at the very least, a “social norm”.
Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook recently announced that the company has been on working something big that is expected to unveil somewhere in the future. It is supposed to enhance and supplement a user’s vision and allow him to do more with the world that he sees around him.
While the company hasn’t really explained what it plans to do with the AR technology, we have a few thoughts. Imagine, maybe, walking down the street and getting a heads-up display for the number of likes a business has.
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As anyone with a 3DS knows, the technology is not new. Magic Leap, a startup which just bagged funding from Google, is also working in the space. Its facial recognition combined with AR could have wide-ranging use cases. “Facebook is meant to give people a way to share anything they want with any audience they want, and so more immersive content like that will be more a part of people want to share”, he said.
