Facebook to build facial-recognition tech smart glasses, after ensuring right to privacy
Facebook all prepared to launch its facial-recognition tech in its smart glasses. On Thursday they asserted its head of augmented and virtual reality (VR).
Andrew Bosworth an American computer scientist during an Instagram Q&A said that The tech giant will only roll out the software if people want it.
The glasses were set to release this year, and that Facebook was still working with Ray-Ban parent company Luxottica to make them, he added.
“It’s coming together pretty nicely,” he exclaimed.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed this new idea at Facebook’s annual developer conference back in 2017. The company is indulged in developing this program for 4 years, before announcing officially.
Facial -recognition is lurking into the legal and privacy issues, Bosworth told employees in a company-wide meeting, media reports state.
In response to the article, Bosworth gave a befitting reply via microblogging site on Thursday which reads that the company has “been open about our efforts to build AR glasses and are still in the early stages.” The glasses “would be fine” without facial-recognition tech, but there were some “nice use cases,”
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Later that evening he followed this up with an Instagram Q&A If people don’t want this technology, we don’t have to supply it,” he told followers. “It’s really a debate we need to have with the public.”
When asked what his biggest ethical concerns were, he said that facial-recognition software and AR’s always-on cameras and microphones could be abused by “authority structures.”
Regulators are unsure of what stance they would take on facial-recognition software, Bosworth said, but “the product’s gonna be fine either way.”
It would be an outstanding experience to see our future using these extraordinary glasses. Though can’t be sure about privacy with such transparency over social media networks. Mark Zuckerberg always makes a stint surprising us, lets see will this grow.
