Project Orion is still a prototype, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hyping them up as a glimpse of a future where everyone is wearing powerful mixed reality VR devices.
Meet Project Orion, a pair of smart glasses that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pitching as the future of computing and the “most advanced glasses that the world has ever seen.”
The technology, which debuted today at the Meta Connect conference, promises to offer the mixed-reality features found in Meta’s bulkier Quest 3 VR headsets, but in a more lightweight and fashionable piece of eyewear, without any wires.
To pull this off, the glasses swap traditional displays for a new kind of “display architecture” that harnesses tiny projectors in the glasses to beam light into custom lenses that refract the light into images, according to Zuckerberg.
