Mark Zuckerberg revealed these prototype headsets to build support
Key takeaways:
- The firm, previously known as Facebook, will spend $10 billion this year on virtual and augmented fact technologies research and development.
- On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed how much progress the social media firm has made toward that goal by displaying many of the unfinished headset prototypes the business has built-in its labs.
- “These prototypes, they’re custom and bespoke models that we made in our lab, so they’re not products that are prepared to ship,” Zuckerberg stated.
The firm, formerly known as Facebook, will spend $10 billion this year on research and development of virtual and augmented reality technologies, including computerized glasses or headsets.
On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed how much progress the social media firm has made toward that purpose by displaying many undone headset prototypes the company has built-in its labs.
Zuckerberg has bet the future of the social networking firm he founded on virtual reality, engaging users in a computer-generated world, and augmented reality, which superimposes computer-generated things over the natural world.
Last year, the firm changed its name to Meta to emphasize the company’s new focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where Zuckerberg pictures people will spend increasing amounts of time — ideally, through progressive, computerized glasses.