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Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta's AR Glasses to Be Its 'iPhone Moment'
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Definitely NOT a fan of Z. or FBook. Do not understand all the hate though. Z (via his ownership) and FBook are in a unique position to try this moonshot. I personally wish them the best if they can accomplish something great. (Not at all optimistic.)
It’s like he’s trying to claw his way of this pit with crackpot ideas and bold claims. I just want to tell him Stop, The world is laughing at how ridiculous you are.
Mark Zuckerberg wants to make Meta's forthcoming AR glasses an "iPhone moment" that will cast him and the company in a new light, according to a former employee who worked on the project.
The comment was made to The Verge for a report outlining Meta's roadmap for AR glasses, which includes at least four different versions to be launched over the next six years.
According to the report, Meta's first-generation AR glasses, dubbed Nazare, will be designed to work independently from a smartphone with the use of a wireless, phone-shaped device that offloads part of the computing required for the glasses to function.
A marquee feature of the device will be the ability for users to communicate with and interact with holograms of other people, similar to fictional scenes depicted in a video last October announcing Facebook's corporate rebrand to Meta.
The report says Meta intends to deliver the first-generation model of its AR glasses, aimed at early adopters and developers, by 2024. In the same year, the company also plans to release a pair of cheaper smart glasses, codenamed Hypernova, that will pair with a smartphone to show incoming messages and other notifications in a heads-up display.
Looking further ahead, Meta's AR roadmap includes a lighter, more advanced version of the Nazare glasses set to arrive in 2026, followed by a third version in 2028, according to details shared with The Verge by people familiar with the matter.
If the AR glasses turn out to be a success, Zuckerberg reportedly hopes they will cast Meta and himself in a new light and make the company he founded innovative once again, which is why "Zuck's ego is intertwined with [the glasses]," the former employee told The Verge.
But Meta will have to go up against Apple, which has its own AR ambitions. Apple is working on at least two AR projects that include an augmented reality headset set to be released in late 2022 or 2023, followed by a sleeker pair of augmented reality glasses coming at a later date.
Rumors first suggested that Apple's AR/VR headset would come out in 2022, perhaps at WWDC in June, but there are development issues that Apple needs to overcome. Reliable sources like Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman have indicated that the headset will likely see a 2023 launch date, with the glasses to follow in 2024 or 2025.
For everything we know about Apple's AR plans, be sure to check out our dedicated guide.
Article Link: Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta's AR Glasses to Be Its 'iPhone Moment'
I remember that. I also remember it being very easy to explain what they could actually gain by having it. AR has been in the news for years now, yet noone can explain to me what the use case is. You’re welcome to try.
iPhone solves all sorts of everyday use cases for almost everyone. AR is a tech demo in search of a use case. That’s the difference.
From 2006:
RIM has the best smartphone with Blackberry, hands down. They will certainly deliver consumer smartphones before Apple will, because they exponentially more experience in the field, and we all know Apple has planned a consumer smartphone for a long time without delivering. Keep in mind RIM will deliver a $399 product, and Apple will deliver a $799 product.
I wasn't surprised this "news" came out after the meta 50% fees info hit the web. He's just saying what he's programmed to say. There is no way he can truly believe this device can be as big as the iPhone
However, the most intriguing part of the interview for me was;
However, the most intriguing part of the interview for me was;
...towards the end of the interview, Mr. Zuckerberg repeatedly bumped into a small craft service table until staff could return him to his charging base....
j/k 🙃 😜What makes this post hilarious is that the Facebook failed SO hard that you forgot about it and compared with Fire Phone instead ?
Apple is laughing all the way to the bank. Apple's solution will either be fully integrated into the headset itself OR rely on your existing smartphone (iPhone). Either way, that is a much more streamlined solution compared to Meta. Facebook is about to have its Google Glass moment.
These glasses could be the finest things ever made with no tracking by FB and yet it will go nowhere with a 50% take from developers.
The article clearly states that FB won't come out with anything until 2024 and Apple will do so in late 2022 or 2023. Your opinion to the contrary is based entirely on the notion that FB has 'exponentially more experience in the field' than Apple. Which is debatable. Sure, Oculus has made the first VR headset, but how long has either Oculus or FB made custom hardware, compared to Apple? It is Apple that has infinitely more experienced in implementing what is actually the hard part: building a lightweight, fashionable AR glasses people will actually want to wear. But even if you just consider AR/VR specific technology: how do you know that FB has 'exponentially' more experience? You know nothing about when Apple began working on AR/VR, nothing about how many people they have working on it or how many of them are AR/VR experts from universities and other companies.
And you said yourself - without actually knowing - that Apple has worked on AR/VR for a long time without delivering. So you do admit that they've invested a lot of time in it - and given that people are pretty similar in intellect, how can FB be 'exponentially' ahead? And the fact that Apple hasn't delivered anything is, in my view, a good thing, because it means they're sweating the details. This is pretty much the same as with the Apple Watch: they started working on one way before Samsung. Samsung delivered first - if they were 'exponentially' ahead of Apple, why does Apple own the market now? Because Samsung wasn't. They rushed out a product that nobody wanted.
We remember your "iPhone moment," Mark.
Here's why the Facebook phone flopped
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I agree with your "2)" hope, but you are DREAMING if you think FB/Meta will not further expand their data mining.
Just remember to take it off before heading to the bathroom, because the Zuckwit will keep every receipt for all time.
There are... so many... things wrong with this comment.
Back in 2005, two years before the iPhone, we had all sorts of crappy tech that was poorly implemented. Stylus was the main way of entering text in a tiny box with lousy handwriting recognition. Web browsing was awful as zooming wasn't possible. Yuck.
Then in 2007 along comes this amazing product, the iPhone. Truly innovative and staggeringly easy to use "just press the home button" and everything was utterly simple.
Truly a breakthrough moment.
Zukkerborg simply doesn't have the wherewithal to do something like that. It'll be a toy, and as we've now learned, an expensive toy. Maybe a gaming market, maybe it will be big. One thing though, it'll be full of advertising opportunities for Zukkerborg to gouge every penny out of people.
Facebook. Just say no.
Then in 2007 along comes this amazing product, the iPhone. Truly innovative and staggeringly easy to use "just press the home button" and everything was utterly simple.
Truly a breakthrough moment.
Zukkerborg simply doesn't have the wherewithal to do something like that. It'll be a toy, and as we've now learned, an expensive toy. Maybe a gaming market, maybe it will be big. One thing though, it'll be full of advertising opportunities for Zukkerborg to gouge every penny out of people.
Facebook. Just say no.
Thank you for this post. You managed to put the situation in perspective without having to resort to hyperbole or name calling. Well done.
Zuck already showed what his vision for this technology is, and it’s embarrassingly bad.
The man has no vision, and Facebook was founded at the same time the DARPA project for mass surveillance LifeLog was “shut down”.
I’ll let you guys figure out what Facebook always was from day one.
The man has no vision, and Facebook was founded at the same time the DARPA project for mass surveillance LifeLog was “shut down”.
I’ll let you guys figure out what Facebook always was from day one.
There’s two main reasons it won’t be an iPhone moment:
1- most people did not know the iPhone was coming. Fecebook has been making it obvious that they are doing this.
2- people were and still are excited about what Apple is going to announce next. They have the fanbase and the press attention. But nobody’s excited about what Fecebook wants to announce. When have you ever heard someone say “I’m a Meta fan” or “You’re a Meta sheep”? Hell, Amazon had to pay people to merely defend them on Twitter, and at least you could make the argument that Amazon does provide something of value to society.
1- most people did not know the iPhone was coming. Fecebook has been making it obvious that they are doing this.
2- people were and still are excited about what Apple is going to announce next. They have the fanbase and the press attention. But nobody’s excited about what Fecebook wants to announce. When have you ever heard someone say “I’m a Meta fan” or “You’re a Meta sheep”? Hell, Amazon had to pay people to merely defend them on Twitter, and at least you could make the argument that Amazon does provide something of value to society.