One of the most important announcements made this week by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was about a pair of augmented reality glasses. The hardware is being<\/b>
\nOne of the most important announcements made this week by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was about a pair of augmented reality glasses. The hardware is being developed at what was until this week Facebook and Oculus. Now they\u2019re all under the Meta brand umbrella \u2013 and they want to present an all-encompassing universe in which we\u2019ll all live virtually. That\u2019ll be made possible with Project Nazare. Earlier this year, Facebook announced a collaboration with Ray-Ban. They created Ray-Ban Stories, a pair of glasses that can capture pictures and\u2026 that\u2019s about it. When Ray-Ban Stories were announced, it was almost as if they appeared as a half-step (or less) toward real-deal augmented reality glasses. Rumors over the past year suggested Facebook and\/or Oculus were working on real AR glasses, but they\u2019d not materialized in any significant way before now. Facebook Connect 2021 had Zuckerberg speak about Project Nazare, a pair of glasses that\u2019ll fit AR visuals inside. These glasses will include \u201chologram displays, projectors, batteries, radios, custom silicon chips, cameras, speakers, sensors to map the world around you, and more.\u201d These glasses are in development now and are aimed at appearing approximately 5mm thick. A lot may change between now and the point at which Project Nazare is ready for public viewing. It\u2019s expected that it\u2019ll be \u201ca few years\u201d before we see this pair of augmented reality glasses available for public purchase and use. It\u2019s likely we\u2019ll see more than a couple of other similar pieces of hardware released by Meta before then \u2013 with virtual reality as the key presentation and goal. The future of Meta has the metaverse as an ultimate goal. Meta wants to be the company that provides the Facebook of the metaverse \u2013 the place we go and the tools we use because everyone else is using them, basically. Cross your fingers someone else goes open source and makes the metaverse open and free before Zuckerberg gets there first.<\/p>\n