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Earlier this month, Facebook announced Portal, a smart device with a camera designed to compete with Amazon's Echo Show program. But the material ambitions of society apparently go far beyond: Cheddar reports that Facebook is working on a television camera that would offer a portal-type video chat on a larger screen and would allow users to stream content from Facebook Watch.
If the device – code-named "Ripley" – reaches the market, Facebook would enter another gigantic battlefield for the smart home, confronting Amazon, Apple, Google and Roku for valuable space in the set-top box . Adding a camera to Facebook, which turns your entire TV into a huge Facebook portal, would be a differentiator for the current market. (Microsoft has already tried this solution with Skype for the Xbox One's Kinect camera, up to follow-up in the bedroom.)
If Facebook plays a role for the TV, it will have to strengthen its support for applications. In the current state of things, the portal supports Facebook Watch and music via Spotify and Pandora. This is good for smart display, but it's far from the kind of content support that Facebook will have to convince users to abandon an HDMI port, especially when many other options are available.
And who on earth asks to add another Giant Facebook camera at their home that constantly monitors their living room like an eye that sees everything from Sauron? The company is already having trouble gaining users' trust after a series of privacy scandals. It is difficult to imagine that the solution is to add even more microphones or speakers to disrupt their lives.
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