Facebook's parent company Meta may be working on smartwatch with a camera

Facebook's new parent company, Meta, is planning to take on the Apple Watch with its under-development smartwatch.

Facebook is now Meta, a new corporate name for the Mark Zuckerberg-led company that is creating a metaverse, which is a combination of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality into a single platform with deep integration with apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and more. This also means a new crop of hardware to support that technology, such as the Oculus headsets. Now, a new report has claimed Meta is working on a smartwatch that will go neck and neck with the Apple Watch, and it has a camera.

Bloomberg has reported that an image of Meta’s new smartwatch was found inside the app that is used to control the Ray-Ban Stories glasses, which the company launched recently when it was still called Facebook. The glasses use inbuilt cameras to record videos and you can choose to make the Ray-Ban Stories upload videos to Facebook or Instagram right away. That ability to be virtually present on Facebook’s platforms through the camera is what may be the biggest highlight of Meta’s smartwatch.