Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is understood for his passion, including for ancient Rome, and on Wednesday he wore a shirt that played on his own ambitions as his company launched what he described as the most effective glasses on this planet.
At Meta’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg wore a custom T-shirt with the Latin phrase “aut Zuck aut nihil,” or “all Zuck or all nothing,” as he revealed the primary working prototype of Meta’s augmented-reality glasses.
The phrase was a play on “aut Caesar aut nihil,” which suggests “either a Caesar or nothing,” or more simply “all or nothing.”
The saying, indicative of grand ambition, was a private motto of Italian Renaissance Prince Cesare Borgia and was possibly coined by Julius Caesar himself, in keeping with some scholars.
Zuckerberg has long been inquisitive about the Roman Empire. He spent his honeymoon in Rome and two of his children, August and Aurelia, are named after emperors Augustus and Marcus Aurelius.
Earlier this yr on his fortieth birthday, Zuckerberg posted photos on social media during which he wore a T-shirt with the words “Carthago delenda est,” meaning “Carthage should be destroyed,” referring to Rome’s great rival.
Zuckerberg’s latest fashion statement comes as Meta Platforms seeks to beat past tech industry failures and develop augmented-reality devices which might be embraced by the masses.
While Meta’s recent Orion AR glasses will not be yet available for users and for now are mostly for internal testing, they represent Zuckerberg’s vision for products that may bring the virtual world into the actual one.
“The method to take into consideration AR glasses is as a time machine,” Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. “They exist, they’re awesome they usually are a glimpse of a future that I feel goes to be pretty exciting.”
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is understood for his passion, including for ancient Rome, and on Wednesday he wore a shirt that played on his own ambitions as his company launched what he described as the most effective glasses on this planet.
At Meta’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg wore a custom T-shirt with the Latin phrase “aut Zuck aut nihil,” or “all Zuck or all nothing,” as he revealed the primary working prototype of Meta’s augmented-reality glasses.
The phrase was a play on “aut Caesar aut nihil,” which suggests “either a Caesar or nothing,” or more simply “all or nothing.”
The saying, indicative of grand ambition, was a private motto of Italian Renaissance Prince Cesare Borgia and was possibly coined by Julius Caesar himself, in keeping with some scholars.
Zuckerberg has long been inquisitive about the Roman Empire. He spent his honeymoon in Rome and two of his children, August and Aurelia, are named after emperors Augustus and Marcus Aurelius.
Earlier this yr on his fortieth birthday, Zuckerberg posted photos on social media during which he wore a T-shirt with the words “Carthago delenda est,” meaning “Carthage should be destroyed,” referring to Rome’s great rival.
Zuckerberg’s latest fashion statement comes as Meta Platforms seeks to beat past tech industry failures and develop augmented-reality devices which might be embraced by the masses.
While Meta’s recent Orion AR glasses will not be yet available for users and for now are mostly for internal testing, they represent Zuckerberg’s vision for products that may bring the virtual world into the actual one.
“The method to take into consideration AR glasses is as a time machine,” Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. “They exist, they’re awesome they usually are a glimpse of a future that I feel goes to be pretty exciting.”
