The leadership in Cupertino is considering several possible path. Right now Meta is considered to be ahead in AR tech. It seems that Apple watched the.
It seems that Apple watched the launch of Meta’s new AR and VR glasses with interest and has started to reconsider its “spatial computing” strategy, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. And it wasn’t the cheap Quest 3S that caused doubt within the walls of the Cupertino HQ, not so much the Ray-Ban Meta glasses either, but the Orion prototype.
VR cuts you off from the world and replaces it with a fully virtual world. Some goggles, like the Quest 3 and 3S, use cameras with color passthrough to create more of an AR experience – a mix of virtual and real things. Apple’s Vision Pro does this too, but also has an external display to render a virtual version of your face, so that people around you feel like they can look you in the eye.
But Meta’s Orion uses holographic displays, which are transparent. This means you see the real world and the real world sees you rather than faking it with displays and cameras.
Orion also introduced a novel control method – electromyography or EMG, which detects even the tiniest muscle movements to sense gestures that the user performs with their fingers.
