Facebook says it will build AR glasses and map the world

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Facebook has confirmed (yet again) that it’s building augmented reality glasses, and it announced a project called “Live Maps” that will create 3D maps of the world. At the Oculus Connect developer conference, Facebook augmented and virtual reality head Andrew Bosworth said the company had “a few” prototypes of AR glasses, although he didn’t offer detail about them.

Facebook Reality Labs will mapping and modeling many different layers of an AR cloud.
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Facebook also described Live Maps in aspirational terms. According to a video, it will produce “multi-layer representations of…