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.
