Everyone is talking about Meta’s Orion AR glasses so the horny one supposes we must discuss them. Yes, the Macalope, like many others, will now give you opinions about how Orion, a device you cannot buy, compares to the Apple Vision Pro, a device most people do not own. He hopes you’re happy.
This is how the technology commentary sausage is made. Don’t look away. Observe as the ground animal products are fed into the casing made of intestines.
Let’s start with The Verge and its coverage, titled, “Meta’s big tease” Consisting of what look like an extremely chunky pair of Ray-Bans, a wrist sensor, and a control module, the Orion AR glasses are a prototype and not available to purchase, which is just as well as Meta says they’d cost “in the ballpark of $10,000 per unit”...
to make . So, is it that surprising that everyone seems to think these crazy expensive glasses are better than the Vision Pro? Probably not that surprising. Ben Thompson (subscription required) thinks Meta’s choice to make them actual glasses rather than using high-resolution screens is a winner, providing a wider field of view and real-life resolution for the user and actual eyeballs for the people around the user.
The glass is not actual glass, however, and it’s not even transparent aluminum , it’s silicon carbide, which sounds like a mid-20th century company that may have turned several midwest towns into a smoldering hellscape. Much of the rest is similar to the Vision Pro’s tak.
