Tech Desk 
Sep 26, 2024
Meta has recently launched its much-awaited new highly innovative augmented reality (AR) glasses, code-named Orion. For a long time before this, the product had been referred to as codename, Project Nazare.
The Orion glasses aim to provide a more immersed and connected experience that allows the physical and virtual worlds to blend.
What are Meta Orion AR glasses?
Orion brings elegant design with enabled AR, featuring large holographic displays for unconstrained digital experiences, contextual AI to enable anticipatory assistance, lightweight indoor/outdoor usability, and face-to-face interaction with transparent lenses.
This new design enables new digital experiences that go beyond screens from the smartphone with seamless contextual AI to a comfortable, wearable form factor.
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Why augmented reality glasses?
The next great leap of human-oriented computing unfolds behind augmented reality glasses. Three major drivers of Meta's focus on AR glasses are unconstrained digital experiences beyond smartphone screens, seamless integration of contextual AI, and comfortable, wearable design.
This significant move has opened up an entirely new category and supercharged any pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses. On top of that Orion miniaturises holographic displays, personalised AI assistance, and comfortable, all-day wearability.
Orion miniaturises technology for the largest field of view in the smallest AR glasses form, making typical use cases for you, multitasking, entertainment, and life-size holograms.
Transparent lenses allow for face-to-face interaction, making Orion unmistakably a pair of glasses both in look and feel.
Orion aims to offer several augmented reality experiences, such as Meta AI assistant, hands-free video calls, WhatsApp and Messenger integration, as well as social experiences. It is not yet ready to be launched for consumers, but Meta plans to test and finalise the product through Meta employees and selected audiences.
