Facebook's owner Meta Platforms Inc. has decided to diminish its initial plans for augmented reality (AR) glasses it has been working on, The Information reported on Wednesday.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the decision is linked to Meta's decision to abandon the collaboration with the electronics company The Plessey Company plc, whose lenses it was supposed to use for its AR glasses. However, Meta failed to make Plessey's displays bright enough for its needs. Therefore, the company opted for more vintage technologies such as liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS).
According to the report, the decision reduced Meta's ambitions to create AR glasses more advanced than Microsoft Corporation's HoloLens.
