Facebook’s Zuckeberg Says Breakthrough in Tech Glasses Will Arrive This Decade

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has projected that there will be a “breakthrough” in augmented reality headset at some point this decade.

The Chief Executive of the social media site predicts that there will be a lot of progress seen in augmented reality technology over the next ten years.

“The technology platform of the 2010s was the mobile phone,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday. “While I expect phones to still be out primary devices through most of this decade, at some point in the 2020s, we will get breakthrough augmented reality glasses that will redefine our relationship with technology.”

It was last September that CNBC reported that Facebook is working on AR glasses, code-named Orion, in its labs in Redmond, Washington.

“Even though some of the early devices seem clunky, I think these will be the most human and social technology platforms anyone has built yet,” Zuckerberg also wrote.

Zuckerberg believes that AR could help address, “ballooning housing costs and inequality of opportunity by geography.” He said that AR could empower individuals to live wherever they wanted while working remotely.

“Imagine if you could live anywhere you chose and access any job anywhere else,” he added. “If we deliver on what we’re building, this should be much closer to reality by 2030.”

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