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from the can-you-hear^W-see-me-know? dept.
Facebook has been working to develop augmented reality glasses out of its Facebook Reality Labs in Redmond, Washington, for the past couple of years, but struggles with the development of the project have led the company to seek help. Now, Facebook is hoping a partnership with Ray-Ban parent company Luxottica will get them completed and ready for consumers between 2023 and 2025, according to people familiar.
The glasses are internally codenamed Orion, and they are designed to replace smartphones, the people said. The glasses would allow users to take calls, show information to users in a small display and live-stream their vantage point to their social media friends and followers.
Facebook is also developing an artificial intelligence voice assistant that would serve as a user input for the glasses, CNBC previously reported. In addition, the company has experimented with a ring device that would allow users to input information via motion sensor. That device is code-named Agios.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @03:43PM (1 child)
Who are they kidding? There is nothing holy (Greek Άγιος == holy, sacred) about this. Sounds rather more like Facebook is every day turning into a better and better approximation of Babylon the Great, though perhaps closer to the symbolic sense that Babylon has for the Rastafarians than for Christian fundamentalists. For what does Facebook do but trade in "the souls of men" (Revelation 18:13), as it trades our likes, dislikes, interests, and relationships with others for its own profit? And in so doing it all but "reigns over the kings of the earth" (Revelation 17:18), as heads of state and politicians are made and broken by trends in social media.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 18 2019, @04:07PM
If you are a Facebook acolyte, then 'holy' would be the right word.
Facebook does not appear to trade in all the other extravagant luxury goods immediately prior to "the souls of men" in Revelation 18:13. The fact that the list of extravagant items concludes with "the souls of men" indicates, to me, an outrageous decadence.
Not to ignore the last portion of Revelation 13, I note that Facebook wants to create its own crypto currency. But one should pay attention to Revelation 14, starting about verse 9, I think (from memory). What the third angel says. (yes, I think I have encyclopedic knowledge of Revelation)
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.