The Facebook CEO said the potential for the augmented reality market will open up once you can fit a supercomputer onto a pair of glasses.
Virtual reality and augmented reality represent a key area of investment for Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stressed Wednesday during an earnings conference call. And while the company has hit some key milestones in advancing VR, Zuckerberg said that building AR glasses that can gain mainstream acceptance will be “one of the hardest technical challenges of the decade.” The challenge comes down to “basically fitting a supercomputer in the frame of glasses,” Zuckerberg said. “I find that a very exciting problem to work on. And I think that once that’s achievable, potential on that is going to be quite big.” Facebook has for years clearly conveyed the potential it sees for VR and AR to become, as Zuckerberg puts it, “the next computing platform.” Last month, Facebook shared more about its investments in areas like neural interfaces for interacting with AR.
