What it will take for headset sales to cross 100 million annually, the specs of Boz’s dream headset, Meta’s spending on Reality Labs, whether and when developers might get access to the Quest’s raw camera feed, the many inventions required to ship optical AR glasses, the role of AI, and more.

On June 20th, I interviewed Andrew Bosworth. “Boz” joined Facebook in 2006 as the company’s ~10th engineer, subsequently building the original News Feed, Messenger, Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems, and running the the Ads and Business Platform product group. In 2017, he established and became Head of Reality Labs, which he continues to run, and in 2022, Boz became CTO of Meta overall.

In the interview, we discuss the three “epochs” in Meta’s Metaverse strategy, what it will take for total VR/MR headset sales to cross 100 million annually, his the specs of his dream headset, Meta’s spending on Reality Labs, whether and when developers might get access to the Quest’s raw camera feed, the many inventions required to ship optical AR glasses, the role of AI, and more.