Facebook Reportedly Working on Portal, A Smart Display For Video Calls, Multimedia

Jan. 10, 2018



Facebook is undeniably the world’s biggest social network, with over 2.07 billion users. The team behind Facebook has been active lately, rolling out new features for its users such asintelligent photo tagging,better groups, and much more.

While the company has had some issues in the past, Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO haspromised a brighter future for the Facebook this year. Now, as part of this bright future, the company is also looking to expand its business, by diving into the home device market with its own video chat device.

The main idea behind Portal is to create a dedicated smart home device that one can use for video calling their friends and family. The device will reportedly be equipped with a wide-angle lens that would use Facebook’s smart algorithms to accurately identify individual faces and associate them with their Facebook accounts. Furthermore, the company also intends to allow Portal tostream multimedia content via Spotify and Netflix.

The device will reportedly be equipped with a wide-angle lens that would use Facebook’s smart algorithms to accurately identify individual faces and associate them with their Facebook accounts.

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