Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that by 2030, people can use advanced smart glasses to “teleport” to places like other people’s homes and talk to them as if they were physically present, so that personal meetings can be replaced by headsets. -based digital experience.
One consequence of this vision for the future may be reducing travel for business or pleasure, which may help improve the effects of climate change, Zuckerberg said in an interview with The Information.
“Clearly, there continue to be cars and planes, and all that. “But the more we can teleport, we not only eliminate commuters and things that are separate from us, but I think it’s better for society and for the planet in general, ” Zuckerberg said.
Most big technology companies, including Apple, Microsoft and Google, are working on augmented reality technology, which puts computer-generated graphics on real-world images. They all compete to form the next important computer interface to the smartphone and touch screen.
Zuckerberg’s remarks are notable because they represent a cohesive vision of an industry leader in what augmented reality technology can mean for consumers, not just other businesses, and he identifies software that can be the angle to get people to buy. and then carry advanced computers on their computers. face: virtual personal communication.
The ultimate vision years later, as Zuckerberg said Monday, is a computer-powered spectacle that looks normal, that can display content through transparent screens alongside the real world.
“There’s going to be all these wonderful use cases that result from this …. rather than calling someone or having a video chat, you just slap your fingers and teleport, and you sit there and they’re on their couch and that feel like you’re there together, ‘Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg says an advantage for ‘teleportation’ driven by AR is that it can reduce travel or commuting time. Eventually, AR could allow workers to live where they want, perhaps a cheaper region, and ‘basically teleport to work,’ Zuckerberg said.
“We talked a little bit about climate change before we were just as important,” Zuckerberg said. “People may just want to travel a little less in the future and do it more efficiently, and be able to visit places without taking the trip or commuting time.”
Zuckerberg’s interview comes because the social media company wants to release smart glasses in collaboration with Ray-Ban later this year, although he said they will not be ‘full AR’, which means they will not display advanced virtual objects . Facebook plans to release more advanced AR glasses as technology gets better.
Facebook is also developing virtual reality heads with a lack of transparent screens by Oculus, which it bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion. It currently sells the Oculus 2, a $ 300 virtual reality chapter. Zuckerberg said he believes software makers will start making software in virtual reality before moving on to augmented reality, calling the two technologies ‘two sides of the same coin’. .