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