Meta platforms. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Orion the
company's first working prototype of augmented reality glasses during its
annual connect conference on Wednesday. It is a completely
new kind of display architecture with these tiny projectors and
the arms of the glasses that shoot light into wave
guides that have nano scale 3d structures etched into the
lenses so they can drac light and put holograms at
different depths and sizes into the world in front of
you, users will be able to interact with the
glasses through hand tracking voice and wrist based neural interface
. Zuckerberg said meta plans to make Orion smaller sleeker
and more low cost before releasing it to consumers.
Zuckerberg positioned a technology as a sort of magnum opus
when he first pivoted to building immersive metaverse systems in
2021 delivering products, however, has been hampered by
high development costs and technological hurdles. The company's metaverse
unit reality labs lost$8.3 billion in the first half
of this year. According to the most recent disclosures
,$16 billion last year meta also announced a slew
of new A I chatbot capabilities meta A I will
now respond to voice commands and users will have the
option to make the assistant sound like celebrities like Judi
Dench, John Cena and Awkwafina. Our lives live
demos can be risky. Yes, thanks Awkwafina.
Later this year, the company plans to add video
generation capabilities and the ability to perform some real time
language translations.