California [US]: The American social networking service firm Facebook is constructing an Android-based smartwatch with messaging, well being, and health options.
According to The Verge, it’s unclear whether or not Facebook intends for the smartwatch to run Google’s Wear Os. Apart from the upcoming smartwatch, Facebook can also be engaged on constructing its personal working system for {hardware} gadgets and future iterations of the wearable could run that software program as an alternative.
The smartwatch would be part of Facebook’s Oculus digital actuality headsets and Portal video chat gadgets as a part of the social community’s rising {hardware} ecosystem.
The firm can also be engaged on branded Ray-Ban sensible glasses anticipated to come back out later this yr and a separate augmented actuality analysis initiative often called Project Aria, which is a part of the corporate’s broader AR explorations, which it has been engaged on for a while now.
The social networking firm has greater than 6,000 staff engaged on numerous augmented and digital actuality initiatives and as a part of current {hardware} divisions like Oculus and Portal, in addition to experimental initiatives underneath its Facebook Reality Labs division.
The Verge additionally reported that Facebook took over the neural interface startup CTRL-Labs in 2019. It has experience in constructing wi-fi enter mechanisms, together with gadgets that would transmit electrical indicators from the mind to computing gadgets with out the necessity for conventional touchscreen or bodily button inputs.
