Meta teases Orion, brain-powered true AR glasses in a tiny package
The Orion glasses, which are notably significantly smaller than Snap's recently announced Spectacles 5, are true AR.
At Wednesday’s Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Orion, which he described as “the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.”
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The glasses, which are strikingly smaller than Snap’s recently announced Spectacles 5, are true AR. Orion utilizes tiny projectors 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 wristband that will be compatible with the devices.
The company is positioning the upcoming glasses as a kind of successor to its current livestream product, Ray-Ban Meta. It notes:
There are a lot of claims by Meta at the moment, such as that “Orion has the largest field of view (FOV) in the smallest AR glasses form to date.” Though we’re far too early for any specifics at this point, they can, however, be seen as a dig at the new Spectacles, which are extremely large with a very narrow FOV.