Facebook to collect data in S’pore to create augmented reality glasses

Data collection is done through a pair of glasses each Facebook employee wears. — GAVIN FOO/The Straits Times

SINGAPORE: Instead of looking down at your phone to read e-mail or text messages, you could soon read them off a pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses you are wearing.

This future is one step closer with the expansion of Facebook’s Project Aria, an AR glasses research project, in Singapore.