“We want to get to this world in the future where you eventually have glasses or contact lenses
where you can mix digital or physical objects in the digital world,” Mr. Zuckerberg said.
On Tuesday, Mr. Zuckerberg introduced what he positioned as the first mainstream augmented reality platform, a way for people to view
and digitally manipulate the physical world around them through the lens of their smartphone cameras.
“Think about how many of the things around us don’t actually need to be physical,” Mr. Zuckerberg said in an interview last week.
But in last week’s interview, he said that some of the technology acquired in the Oculus
purchase have helped create the seeds of the new augmented reality platform.
“Just like Apple built the iPod and iTunes ecosystem before the iPhone, you want to make sure
there’s a set of content there, even if there’s not everything,” Mr. Zuckerberg said.
