Meta’s Orion AR glasses provide a long-term vision beyond smartphones

The news: Meta’s ambitious Orion smart glasses, demoed at this week’s Meta Connect, is a culmination of 10 years of R&D and the clearest representation of a future beyond smartphones.

  • The holographic, augmented-reality (AR) glasses require a wristband that doubles as a controller and an external, puck-shaped processor. 
  • It showcases a mix of AI and mixed-reality (MR) interactions.