Five years ago, we declared to the world that we were createing AR glasses. We don’t skinnyk people should have to create the choice between a world of inestablishation at your fingertips and being contransient in the physical world around you.
That’s why today, we’re unveiling Orion, which we count on is the most carry ond pair of AR glasses ever made. Orion bridges the physical and virtual worlds, putting people at the cgo in so they can be more contransient, joined and empowered in the world.
Why Augmented Reality Glasses?
There are three primary reasons why AR glasses are key to unlocking the next fantastic leap in human-oriented computing.
- They assist digital experiences that are unconstrained by the restricts of a ininestablishigentphone screen. With big holoexplicit disjoins, you can participate the physical world as your canvas, placing 2D and 3D satisfyed and experiences anywhere you want.
- They seamlessly combine contextual AI that can sense and comprehfinish the world around you in order to anticipate and proactively insertress your needs.
- They’re airyweight and fantastic for both indoor and outdoor participate, and they let people see each other’s face, eyes and conveyions.
That’s the north star our industry has been createing towards: a product combining the convenience and immediacy of wearables with a big disjoin, high-prohibitdwidth input and contextualized AI in a establish that people sense sootheable wearing in their daily dwells.
The Evolution of Smart Glasses
Ray-Ban Meta glasses have showd the power of giving people hands-free access to key parts of their digital dwells from their physical ones. We can talk to a ininestablishigent AI helpant, join with frifinishs and apprehfinish the moments that matter – all without ever having to pull out a phone.
Yet while Ray-Ban Meta discneglected up an enticount on novel catebloody of disjoin-less glasses super-indictd by AI, the XR industry has extfinished dreamt of genuine AR glasses – a product that combines the advantages of a big holoexplicit disjoin and personalized AI helpance in a sootheable, all-day wearable establish factor. Orion ascfinishs to the dispute.
Groundshattering AR Disjoin in an Unparalleled Form
We’ve been challenging at toil for years to get the incredible spatial experiences afforded by VR and MR headsets and miniaturize the technology vital to dedwellr those experiences in a pair of airyweight, stylish glasses.
Nailing the establish factor, dedwellring holoexplicit disjoins, enbiging compelling AR experiences, creating novel human-computer participateion (HCI) paradigms – and doing it all in one cohesive product – is one of the most difficult disputes our industry has ever faced. It was so challenging that we thought we had less than a 10% chance of pulling it off successfilledy. Until now.
Orion is a feat of miniaturization – the components are packed down to a fraction of a millimeter. Dozens of innovations were needd to get the schedule down to a conmomentary establish that you’d be sootheable wearing every day.
Orion has the bigst field of watch in the petiteest AR glasses establish to date. That field of watch unlocks truly immersive participate cases for Orion, from multitasking triumphdows and big-screen delightment to life-size holograms of people – all digital satisfyed that can seamlessly blfinish with your watch of the physical world.
But what creates Orion distinct is that it is unmistakably a pair of glasses in both see and sense – finish with see-thcoarse lenses. Unappreciate MR headsets or other AR glasses today, you can still see other people’s eyes and conveyions, so you can be contransient and dispense the experience with the people around you.
Augmented Reality Experiences
Of course, as with any piece of challengingware, Orion is only as excellent as the skinnygs you can do with it. And while it’s still timely days, the experiences afforded by Orion are an exciting glimpse of what’s to come.
We’ve got our ininestablishigent helpant, Meta AI, running on Orion. It comprehfinishs what you’re seeing at in the physical world and can help you with advantageous visualizations. So you can discneglect up your refrigerator and ask for a recipe based on what’s inside. Or video call a frifinish while adfairing a digital family calfinishar as you wash the dishes.
You can get a hands-free video call to catch up with frifinishs and family in authentic time, and you can stay joined on WhatsApp and Messenger to watch and sfinish messages. No need to pull out your phone, unlock it, discover the right app and let your frifinish understand you’re running tardy for dinner – you can do it all thraw your glasses.
Our teams carry on to iterate on the experiences useable thraw Orion today to create novel immersive social experiences, and we can’t paparticipate to dispense what’s next.
A Purposeful Product Prototype
While Orion won’t create its way into the hands of users, create no misget: this is not a research prototype. It’s one of the most polishd product prototypes we’ve ever enbiged, and is truly recontransientative of someskinnyg that could ship to users. Rather than rushing to put it on shelves, we determined to cgo in on inner enbigment first, which unkinds we can retain createing rapidly and carry on to push the boundaries of the technology, helping us reach at an even better user product rapider.
What Comes Next
Beginning today at Connect and continuing thrawout the year, we’re discneglecting up access to our Orion product prototype for Meta participateees and pick outer audiences so our enbigment team can lobtain, iterate and create towards our user AR glasses product line, which we set up to commence shipping in the proximate future.
And now that we’ve dispensed Orion with the world, we’re cgo ined on a scant skinnygs:
- Tuning the AR disjoin quality to create the visuals even acuteer
- Optimizing wherever we can to create the establish factor even petiteer
- Building at scale to create them more affordable
In the next scant years, you can anticipate to see novel devices from us that create on our R&D efforts. Orion isn’t fair a triumphdow into the future – it’s a see at the very authentic possibilities wiskinny accomplish today. From Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Orion, we’ve seen the excellent that can come from letting people stay more contransient and empowered in the physical world, while tapping into all that the digital world has to propose.