Facebook’s smart glasses are expected to be launched sooner rather than later this year, but they will not feature digital diaphragm technology associated with augmented reality, according to the company’s head of devices, Andrew Bosworth.

The smart glasses that are manufactured in partnership with Ray-Ban and its parent company Luxottica Group SpA can be technically linked to smart devices, but users will not be able to project digital elements onto the real world through them, which is The basis of augmented reality technology.

“They are glasses that can be linked to different devices, and they have multiple functions,” Bosworth says, “But we are very careful with the functionality that we offer specifically. While we’re excited about it, we don’t want to overdo it. We haven’t called reality.” Enhanced by the property offered by the glasses, we simply call them “smart glasses”.

First announcement
Facebook first announced its plans to release augmented reality glasses in 2017 and has since created a small number of features that allow people to project digital images onto the physical world using the camera in a manner similar to photo filters that change the shape of the face in Some social media platforms.

The company has invested a lot in the development of devices in recent years, and it has purchased the emerging company (Oculus) for augmented reality, and launched a home video device called “Portal”. The virtual reality, augmented reality, and devices teams in Facebook include more than 6000 An employee, according to an informed source, and this crew is larger than the groups that Facebook has hired to work on apps for one billion users, such as Instagram and WhatsApp.

Facebook isn’t the only one
The smart glasses are part of the company’s long-term effort to precede the dominance of the large computing platforms that will follow the smartphone. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a big supporter of both augmented and virtual reality technologies, although the first release of Facebook’s glasses will not ultimately fulfill the promises of augmented reality, which allows the mixing of the digital and physical world through the lens. Bosworth declined to reveal the features of the upcoming glasses, but said, they align with Facebook’s larger philosophy on augmented reality, which is to make technology marginal in human interactions in order to enhance “presence and presence.”

A common situation cited by Bosworth in this regard is the attempt by parents to record their memories with their young children. “You might miss the command you want to record while you are trying to pick up your phone to shoot the shot,” he says. “But if it succeeds, you will probably see the action, but through your phone, if you have the right technology, this problem can be solved.”