Meta’s Orion smart glasses look like the future of AR

You can’t buy Meta’s most exciting new product, the smart glasses code-named Orion. You might be able to buy a brand like them a few years from now, but most of us won’t be able to get around to wearing them. That doesn’t make them less fun, though, or less important. Orion is a mission statement from Meta: that AR glasses are truly the future and that we will eventually get there.

The event for all of this news was Meta Connect, so we’re also going over all the other announcements from Connect. There are new smart glasses, new VR headsets, new celebrity AIs to replace old celebrity AIs, voice modes, and more. But let’s be honest: we talk a lot about Orion. It could be vaporware, a science project, a prototype, an unlikely future, or somewhere in the middle of the Venn diagram of all those things. And the fact that they exist at all says a lot about where we are in technological development.

If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started, starting with Orion and other new Meta gadgets:

And in other Meta Connect news:

And in the lightning round: