Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware

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Meta's Portal videoconferencing hubs will no longer be sold to consumers. Instead, the devices will be marketed just to business users.

a smartwatch with cameras that had been in the works for a couple years. But hey, the guy who came up with the metaverse is getting into NFTs now, so maybe it's all still legit.Phone cameras have gotten pretty boring. In fact, they’ve remained fundamentally unchanged for years. But the companyby developing optics that capture more data while lying flatter than standard lens elements.

On Thursday, Metalenz announced a partnership with the semiconductor company STMicroelectronics that should accelerate Metalenz’s entry into the consumer market. The company’s first product utilizing the “metasurface” lens tech is a depth sensor that can be used for smartphone functions that require 3D data, such as portrait mode photos or face-unlock authentication. The same sensor can also provide depth-sensing abilities to VR headsets and autonomous robots.

If adoption of Metalenz’s tech continues, these flatter and more powerful lenses could be making their way into more smartphone-ready camera modules to help you

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