The Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, received the president and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, at Palazzo Chigi in the morning. The minister for technology innovation Vittorio Colao was also present at the meeting. The meeting ended around 11 am and lasted about an hour.
Zuckerberg has been in Italy for a few days. After being spotted on the streets of Siena last Monday with his wife Priscilla Chan d him in the following days, he went to Turin and Milan. In the Lombard capital, the founder of Facebook met Leonardo Del Vecchio, founder of Luxottica, with whom he talked about the development projects already started by Meta and EssilorLuxottica on smartglasses.
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The two companies announced in September 2020 a multi-year collaboration “to develop the next generation of smart glasses”, with the aim of combining Facebook’s apps and technologies, Luxottica’s brands and leadership in eyewear and the technologies of Essilor lenses “to help people stay connected with friends and family”.
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