San Francisco: Social networking giant Facebook is set to launch an updated version of its video chat device 'Portal' later in 2019. Andrew Bosworth, Vice President of Facebook's Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) confirmed that the company has a lot more to unveil "later this fall", related to Portal, The Verge reported on Monday. According to Bosworth, Facebook would also reveal some "new form factors" that Portal would be shipped with. Speculations suggest these "new form factors" could include the "Ripley" device that has appeared in Portal firmware repositories, the report said citing TechCrunch. While the smaller device was priced at $199, the larger "Portal Plus" was made available for $349 with 10-inch display and 15-inch display, respectively.

Source: Mint June 11, 2019 07:30 UTC