A former employee who worked on the project says that Mark Zuckerberg wants to make Meta's forthcoming augmented reality glasses an "iPhone moment" that will cast him and the company in a new light.
Meta has a plan for at least four different versions of augmented reality glasses over the next six years, according to a report by The Verge.
According to the report, Meta's first-generation augmented reality glasses, dubbed Nazare, will be designed to work independently from a phone with the use of a wireless, phone-shaped device that reduces 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 first-generation model of Meta's augmented reality glasses will be available by 2024, according to the report. The company plans to release a pair of cheaper smart glasses in the same year that will pair with a phone to show incoming messages and other notifications.
According to people familiar with the matter, a lighter, more advanced version of the Nazare glasses will arrive in 2026, followed by a third version in 2028.
If the glasses are a success, 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 Apple mixed-reality headset concept is based on leaked information.
Meta will have to compete with Apple, which has its own ambitions. Apple is working on at least two augmented reality projects that include an augmented reality headset that will be released in late 2022, followed by a sleeker pair of augmented reality glasses.
There are development issues that Apple needs to overcome if it is to have an augmented reality headset. According to reliable sources, the headset will likely be launched in 2023, with the glasses to follow in the following years.
We have a dedicated guide for everything we know about Apple's augmented reality plans.
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