Meta first glasses for AR will arrive in 2024 and more advanced will come in 2026 and 2028. They are being developed under the code name “Project Nazare” in parallel with Oculus products, although they undoubtedly have interconnected technologies.

Everything is part of Marc Zuckerberg’s goal of becoming the “king of the meta universe,” Facebook’s ambitious strategic commitment, which included a name change, although it was also used to try to leave excess privacy. social network.

Zuckerberg considers augmented reality glasses to be the holy grail of that “Redefines our relationship with technology” in the revolution similar to the introduction of smartphones. He is not the only one who believes this, and Apple’s boss Tim Cook used a similar argument when, without giving details or deadlines, he proceeded to develop the solution of the Cupertin company.

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TheVerge claims to have had access to Meta’s internal plan. Zuckerberg would push and various teams would compete to deliver the first generation of equipment in 2024, producing lighter and more advanced designs from there. “Zuck’s ego is associated with glasses”a former employee who worked on the project explained to the media. “He wants it to be a moment for the iPhone” in reference to the revolution that caused Apple’s first mobile phone.

We will see. Although Meta may use some technology from its other company, Oculus, the demonstrations that have been submitted so far, such as playing virtual chess on a real table with someone’s avatar, were not based on any functional hardware or software. Meta does not yet have a working prototype and until 2024 it flies like water.

Meta’s CEO sees his glasses as the way to go get out of the control of Apple and Google, which together dictate the conditions that applications such as Facebook must comply with on mobile phones. The first version is designed to operate independently of the mobile phone using a wireless phone-shaped device that downloads the computer parts necessary for the glasses to operate.

An excellent feature will be the ability to communicate and interact with other people’s holograms through glasses, which Zuckerberg believes will ultimately provide people with an immersive and compelling experience than the video calls that exist today.

At the same time, the second device, codenamed “Hypernova”, will be cheaper and easier to connect to smartphones and display incoming messages and other notifications via a smaller head-up display, similar to Google’s smart glasses.

It must be said that Meta has invested billions of dollars in these projects and Internal sales expectations are not good in the short term. Another of his projects, the clever Ray-Bans, sold a third of what was planned. The price of Meta AR glasses has not been set, but they are said to be more expensive than $ 299 Quest VR.

Meta expects massive sales by the end of the decade, but that remains to be seen. Consumer virtual reality has so far been a complete setback, and the huge delay in launching Apple’s AR suggests that this segment is not advanced. The average user just doesn’t need it. Work remains for Meta and the rest of the technology companies.

Focus on Metaverse

End by saying that, according to Zuckerberg, all these technologies are converging in the metaspace, shared virtual worlds which want to become another large communication platform on a scale Worldwide Network. Some even say that Metaverse will end the Internet as we know it. We don’t see it that close … If it ever happens. In addition, access to the metaverse will not be limited to AR devices and will theoretically be accessible from VR headsets, PCs or smartphones.