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Besides confirming at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday that Facebook is working on augment reality, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is preparing for the launch of its flagship headset.
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.
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. However, Abrash acknowledges that with the new type of problems associated with augmented reality, it would longer before it become as feasible as VR.
If it would work well, Abrash reckons that would be something everyone would use. He explains, "It's kind of seamless. Maybe it'll be contacts [or glasses]. You'll have something on and it'll be VR and AR as you choose."
He cited making the optics and displays and getting photos onto the eyes of the user as among the challenges Facebook is facing.
With VR, the headset provides the user the ability to shut out the rest of the world and keep focus only on the experience such as seeing a baby take the first step. Zuckerberg maintains that VR allows Facebook users to share anything in any form of medium. He sees the immersive experience becoming a major part of what was shared.
Zuckerberg clarifies that AR keeps the person connected with the world around him. Besides Facebook startup Magic Leap - which got a large investment from Google - and Google Glass are also working on AR.
The world's largest social media portal says that it is looking beyond VR. Zuckerberg sees wide-ranging use of AR, when combined with facial recognition.
Since Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, is expecting a baby, the father-to-be shares, "I'm really looking forward to being able to capture not just a photo but to really capture the experience," quotes re/code. With AR, his FB friends would have the ability to be at his baby's moments and feel it.
