At Wednesday’s Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced what he described as Meta teases Orion, ‘the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.’
The glasses, which are notably significantly smaller than Snap’s recently announced Spectacles 5, are true AR. Orion utilize tiny projects built into the glasses temples to create a heads-up display — think the 2024 version of Google Glass.
The glasses, which Zuckerberg said were a decade in the making, don’t appear to be too far beyond the concept phase at this point. “These glasses exist, they are awesome, and they are a glimpse of a future that I think will be exciting,” the executive noted during the presentation. He added that the team still has a good bit of “fine-tuning” before Meta is ready to turn them into an official consumer product.
Notably, along with the standard voice prompts, Orion will be controlled through a ‘neural interface’ That arrives by way of Meta’s 2019 acquisition of CTRL-Labs, which makes a wrist ban that will be compatible with the devices.
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