Meta announces Orion AR glasses with multi-sensory controls

Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled the Meta Orion AR glasses. Although still a prototype, these holographic Augmented Reality (AR) glasses offer multi-sensory controls. Meta’s AR glasses offer holographic overlay At the Meta Connect 2024, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Meta’s holographic AR glasses prototype.

Codenamed Orion, the AR glasses are still a work in progress . However, the prototype Mark demoed was reportedly fully functional . The Meta Orion AR glasses are the culmination of over a decade’s work, announced the Meta CEO.

As the brief demo video indicates, these AR glasses appear thick. However, they weigh less than 100 grams. Meta’s latest AR tech offers a virtual overlay to augment what wearers will see in the real world.

These glasses can highlight objects, let users video chat with another person’s life-like persona, and give wearers access to web browsing and video streaming. Meta announced Orion: “the world’s most advanced AR glasses ever made” > Meta AI and Orion are multimodal and can understand everything you see > Comes with eye, hand, and neural tracking > Video calls turn friends into lifelike avatars next to you 🤯 pic.twitter.

com/EzWHX0ZtUs — Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) September 25, 2024 Mark has cautioned that the design of the Meta Orion AR glasses isn’t yet finalized. Interestingly, he implied the aesthetics, and not the inner hardware, “aren’t as fashionable”. The Orion AR glasses benefit from Meta’s Artificial Intelligence LLM.

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