Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box

Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box

Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming and content co-watching. If you can get past the creepiness, the new Portal TV lets you hang out with friends on your home's biggest screen. It's a fresh product category that could give the social network a unique foothold in the living room, where, unlike on phones where it's beholden to Apple and Google, Facebook owns the hardware and operating system.