Facebook Reiterates Plan to Build AR Glasses; Creating 3D ‘Live Maps’ of the World
Facebook Reiterates Plan to Build AR Glasses; Creating 3D ‘Live Maps’ of the World At its sixth Oculus Connect conference on Wednesday, Facebook reiterated its plans to build augmented reality (AR) glasses. The company also announced a project called ‘Live Maps’ that will create 3D maps of the world by fusing crowdsourced data and traditional maps with images and videos captured through phones and AR glasses. At its presentation, the company also employed hi-tech holographic imagery to demo how it envisages its new project, which it says will be a‘multi-layer representations of the world’....