Facebook is 'of course' working on AR glasses, but the technology is not ready for primetime

The world may not have been ready for mainstream adoption of Google smart glasses back in 2014, while the Microsoft HoloLens is still very much a work in progress, but eventually, augmented reality is likely to prove a revolutionary technology at a wider scale than we can perhaps imagine.

AR experiences are different from the world of virtual reality, keeping the user in contact with the actual environment around them while “augmenting” objects and actions at many different levels, including visual, auditory, haptic, and olfactory.

Even though the existing AR software practically ...