MENLO PARK (CALIFORNIA), Sept 26 — Facebook owner Meta Platforms showed off its first working prototype of augmented-reality glasses, called Orion, during its annual Connect...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows off the Orion AR Glasses, during his keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event. — Picture by ReutersMENLO PARK , Sept 26 — Facebook owner Meta Platforms showed off its first working prototype of augmented-reality glasses, called Orion , during its annual Connect conference yesterday, as the California company sketched out its aspirations for products that would bring the virtual world into the real one.
Meta also showed off new AI chatbot capabilities for its services and a new Quest mixed-reality headset. Meta shares registered a record closing high yesterday, up 0.9% at $568.31. Zuckerberg positioned AR technology as a sort of magnum opus when he first pivoted the world’s biggest social media company toward building immersive “metaverse” systems in 2021. Delivering products, however, has been hampered by high development costs and technological hurdles.
Zuckerberg did not demonstrate Orion's capabilities directly during his announcement, instead playing a video showing how people reacted to the device when they tried it. The video showed a few glimpses of text messages and images displayed through the glasses, and the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, was prominent among the testers.
Among the AI updates announced was an audio upgrade to the digital assistant, called Meta AI, which will now respond to voice commands and offer users the option to make the assistant sound like celebrities including Judi Dench and John Cena. In keeping with its strategy of sharing the AI models powering its digital agent for mostly free use by others, Meta released three new versions of its Llama 3 models, although it withheld the models from the European Union in light of regulations there.
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