马克·扎克伯格对虚拟现实和增强现实的未来持乐观态度。扎克伯格在Facebook F8大会的主题演讲中表示，该公司正在跨虚拟现实平台开发“一套全新的社交体验”，这与该公司今年早些时候发布的一项声明不谋而合虚拟现实有可能成为最具社交性的平台，因为你真的觉得自己和另一个人在一起，”他说，并提到了一个Oculus Rift“toybox”演示，让两个人在VR中一起玩。但在未来十年，扎克伯格看到了许多人预测的一个进步：虚拟现实将与增强现实融合，成为日常生活的一部分。

Over the next 10 years, the form factor's just going to keep on getting **aller and **aller, and eventually we're going to have what looks like normal-looking glasses that can do both virtual and augmented reality. And augmented reality gives you the ability to see the world but also to be able to overlay digital objects on top of that.

So that means that today, if I want to show my friends a photo, I pull out my phone and I have a **all version of the photo. In the future, you'll be able to snap your fingers and pull out a photo and make it as big as you want, and with your AR glasses you'll be able to show it to people and they'll be able to see it.

As a matter of act, when we get to this world, a lot of things that we think about as physical objects today, like a TV for displaying an image, will actually just be $1 apps in an AR app store. So it's going to take a long time to make this work. But this is the vision, and this is what we're trying to get to over the next 10 years.

Facebook在2014年收购的Oculus Rift耳机的发明者帕尔默·勒基（Palmer Luckey）此前曾预测，增强型和虚拟现实耳机将融合成一个单一的硬件，人们可以随身携带，也可以像戴眼镜一样佩戴。当然，这会比听起来更难。目前，虚拟耳机和增强现实耳机使用的是根本不同的视觉技术，一副小眼镜很难像VR耳机那样挡住外界。

但扎克伯格描述的照片共享技术在微软HoloLens等早期增强现实耳机上已经是可行的了。销售应用程序来模拟物理对象的想法也是如此，尽管我们希望他不是故意要多付一美元来模拟一个视频屏幕。从对早期增强现实耳机谷歌眼镜（googleglass）的矛盾反应来看，理清社交规范实际上可能比理清纯技术更难——这是Facebook应该更熟悉的一个问题。