At the end of the Meta Connect keynote, Meta shared an exclusive look at its first fully functioning prototype of 'Orion' — fully holographic AR glasses.
Meta shared some big updates for its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses during the Meta Connect keynote, but it also revealed a prototype for a future product: fully holographic AR glasses. After almost 10 years of work, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off his team’s first fully functioning prototype, named Orion.
To meet their goals, the team behind Orion had to develop a prototype that was — first and foremost — a pair of glasses. That meant no headset, no wires, a weight of less than 100 grams, a wide field of view, and holographic displays that were sharp enough to pick up details and bright enough to see in different lighting conditions.
The result is a display that doesn’t use passthrough — what the wearer sees is the real physical world with holograms overlaid onto it. These holograms might be a cinematic screen, a desktop window for working, a game, a little app window for replying to messages, or even a hologram version of the person you’re on a call with.
Zuckerberg said there was a battery in the arms of the glasses, but he also briefly mentioned a “small puck” that would be used to help power the wearable. As for how you interact with the glasses, they will use AI with voice, hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and something called a wrist-based neural interface.
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