Facebook’s Portal Smart Speaker With Display Screen, Alexa Voice Support, Privacy Shutter to Launch Next Week: Report

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’s Portal Smart Speaker With Display Screen, Alexa Voice Support, Privacy Shutter to Launch Next Week: Report

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’s long-rumoured plans to enter into the consumer hardware space (outside of Oculus) by launching a smart speaker called Portal may finally come to reality. A new report claims that the social media giant is set to unveil its first video chat device called Portal next week, and it is expected to cost at a maximum of $400 (roughly Rs. 28,800). Portal will reportedly come in two screen sizes and be powered by

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Alexa voice assistant.

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was reported to announce this device in mid-2018, but plans were pushed in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. With Portal,

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plans to compete with

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, and Apple, in the smart speaker space.

A new

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from Cheddar cites unnamed sources to claim that Facbeook is unveiling the Portal ‘video chat device’ as early as next week. It will have similar features like the

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Echo Show, sporting a display and a camera for video chatting purposes and facial recognition. The report states that Portal will come in two screen sizes, and while the large device will be priced around $400 (roughly Rs. 28,800), the smaller screen variant will retail for $300 (roughly Rs. 21,600).

In the wake of new privacy concerns, the report states that Portal will sport a “privacy shutter that can cover the device’s wide-angle video camera, which uses artificial intelligence to recognize people in the frame and follow them as they move throughout a room.” The shutter was recently developed after

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got embroiled in the Russia political controversy.

The new report states that Portal will be powered by

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’s Alexa voice assistant to let users watch videos, play music, see recipes, and get weather and schedule information.

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has dabbled into hardware before with Oculus, a VR headset company it acquired in 2014. However, this is the first consumer hardware device, outside of the Oculus family, that

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plans to sell commercially. It will be interesting to see how

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will leverage its own service in the smart speaker space.

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