Barbara De Salvo - Meta Reality Labs Research (03:50-04:10pm)

Abstract: Augmented Reality, the next human machine interface: New technologies and system requirements
The human relationship with computers and information has evolved in a dramatic way in the last decades. Humanity encountered the first personal computer in the 50s, which eventually evolved in the Internet. Recent times have seen the revolution of the smart phone. Today, we’re immersed into a vast ocean of virtual information and connections whenever and wherever we want, through two-dimensional surfaces which accompany us everywhere we go. Clearly, the future of our digital gateways will be even more portable and personal in the future. At Meta Reality Labs, we are developing the next generation computing platform, the AR/VR glasses which will combine virtual and real worlds, to serve human needs and to explore the limits of human experience. Silicon is only one piece of the many technologies that need to converge together to create a fully AR experience. We need to integrate Si together with displays, sensors, electrical and mechanical systems and not ultimately, AR algorithms. If the importance of performance-per watt is well known for mobile device, it will be even more critical for AR devices. In order to make this vision reality, we will need optimization at every level of the system, including novel revolutionary technologies and co-optimization of HW and SW.