Facebook also steps into the world of AR

san jose - Facebook will develop a platform for augmented reality. That was the message from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at F8 Tuesday, the meeting of Facebook developers. Facebook is not alone: ​​other companies, including Microsoft see 2017 as the year of the augmented reality.

Zuckerberg morning climbed onto the stage, casually dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. In his photos and videos and more important in our lives. At the same time traditional communities fall apart, and it is becoming more necessary to bring people together, says Zuckerberg. Facebook sees a world in which real life and mixed digital life.

To bring together real life and the digital world requires a platform and AR platform will develop Facebook. The platform is now open to developers.

The first step is Facebook adding digital elements to daily life using the camera of a phone. Ultimately, that should lead to a kind of spectacle that can put a virtual layer on reality. 'But it takes a while to roll out such things,' Zuckerberg warns.

The ideas of Facebook do very much of the efforts of Google with Google Glass, the filters Snapchat previously introduced and the new filters that adapt to the environment of the picture and the AR platform that Microsoft is developing.