Fuckbook 'ALOHA' project

PRIVATE:

Andrew Bosworth

That includes Oculus VR and Facebook’s newer Building 8 division, which is working on an unannounced video chat device codenamed Aloha.

Aloha will be the first in a string of consumer gadgets from Building 8. The secretive team is also working on an Amazon Echo-like smart speaker, 360-degree camera, and futuristic wearables.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/facebooks-andrew-bosworth-to-lead-oculus-building-8-aloha-video-chat-device-details-2017-8?r=US&IR=T

Freddy Abnousi

Howard E. Shrobe???

Caitlin Kalinowski

Spencer Burns

Christopher Earl

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/14/darpa-defends-ex-employees-no-bid-contract-amid-revolving-door-claims

PUBLIC:

Regina Dugan

Sauce:

Facebook Hired a Former DARPA Head To Lead An Ambitious New Research Lab

Dugan served as the head of the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 2009 and 2012. Most recently, she led Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Lab, a highly experimental arm of the company responsible for developing new hardware and software products on a strict two-year timetable.

http://time.com/4294095/facebook-research-lab-building-8-darpa-regina-dugan/

'Not a random idea factory' - Why Facebook says its brain sensors are closer than you think

Brain scanning and skin sensors sound like the stuff of science fiction.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/facebooks-regina-dugan-on-building-8-brain-scanning-tech-and-ar-2017-4?r=US&IR=T

Mark Chevillet

Facebook is hardly the first to set out to make a working brain-computer interface. DARPA, which Dugan used to head, has invested heavily in brain-computer interface technologies to do things such as treat mental illness and restore memories to soldiers injured in war.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/09/here-are-the-first-hints-of-how-facebook-plans-to-read-your-thoughts/

Q getting closer???

Facebook moves hundreds of employees to new augmented reality glasses division

Facebook is moving hundreds of employees to a new division focused on commercializing the company’s forthcoming line of augmented reality glasses, Business Insider reports.

The company built the new division by splitting Facebook Reality Labs in half, one source told the news outlet. That source estimated about 400 people were being moved to the new AR group.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the restructuring, but didn’t say how many people had been moved. The Menlo Park-based company has repeatedly restructured the team in charge of building experimental hardware products.

In 2016, it hired former Google executive and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency director Regina Dugan to head up Building 8, a skunkworks division in charge of a new videoconferencing product, augmented reality glasses, human-computer brain interfaces and robotics.

She quit Facebook in 2017, and the company restructured Building 8 the following year, moving its videoconferencing product, Portal, into its own division, and its other projects into the newly formed Facebook Reality Labs, formerly known as Oculus Research.

In November, Facebook Reality Labs spun out its augmented reality project into a standalone division led by Facebook’s VP of virtual reality and augmented reality, Andrew Bosworth, and Facebook Reality Labs head Michael Abrash, Business Insider reports.

The restructuring could mean Facebook is getting close to releasing a consumer version of its augmented reality glasses.

The company has already weaved lightweight augmented reality software into some of its products. For example, people can select virtual bunny ears for themselves while videochatting on Messenger. Brands like Nike have experimented with augmented reality to show people how a pair of shoes might look if they owned them.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/01/18/facebook-ar-glasses-division-restructuring-fb.html

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Facebook reveals size of its Seattle-area footprint, confirms mysterious Oculus ‘Building X’

Facebook has grown as fast as any company in the Seattle area in recent years, but it has done so while keeping details close to the vest, for the most part. But the company today disclosed the size of its massive, sprawling footprint throughout the region: 2.7 million square feet and counting.

That footprint works out to nearly twice the size of Seattle’s tallest skyscraper, Columbia Center.

Facebook’s regional presence includes a number of projects still under construction and in early planning phases. Facebook confirmed plans for a mysterious project known as Building X for its Oculus virtual reality unit. That building will become a centerpiece for the rapidly expanding Oculus campus in Microsoft’s backyard of Redmond, Wash.

Also part of Facebook’s growing footprint is a 338,000-square-foot building in the new Spring District neighborhood that the company recently leased.

The Spring District is a 36-acre, 16-block mixed-used development built around a future light rail station that will be home to a new headquarters for outdoor retailer REI. It is also the site of the Global Innovation Exchange, the technology innovation graduate program created by the University of Washington, Tsinghua University and Microsoft.

The neighborhood is being built from scratch, so there is plenty of future room for Facebook to grow there if it wants to create a clustered, campus-like environment.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/facebook-reveals-size-seattle-footprint-confirms-mysterious-oculus-building-x/