Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
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#2This is insane
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#3This is insane
Insane as in “how can Meta be so crazy as to commit themselves to AR still just because it’s in their company name” or as in “insanely good”?
Genuine question!
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#4Wow. Something seems to have really changed at Meta in the last few years. I really thought the company had run out of innovation juice during its peak evangelism of "the metaverse." And I know I wasn't alone in that sentiment. But they continue to impress across the board.
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#5I have to assume there are folks out there for whom the maximum chonky appearance is appealing.
I think we still have some room to grow there in terms of aesthetic for the majority though.
undoubtedly a progressive achievement in the field, despite it all
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#6"the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses" is... one way to describe it. They look totally goofy. But the tech seems amazing, assuming those videos actually reflect reality (which is hard to say, since this is not a real product, just a prototype announcement).
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#7Say what you want about Zuckerberg. But once again you have witnessed the heavy investment in reality labs to create a new XR glasses platform that potentially ticks all the boxes that will take consumer XR glasses mainstream:
* Looks very cool and more natural. (In comparison, look at Snap XR Glasses)
* No wires sticking out.
* Not a huge VR headset.
* Can see what you see through the lenses for XR capabilities.
* Controllable through eyes, hands and neural interface to cover almost all scenarios without looking awkward in public.
* Integrates with an existing app ecosystem.
Orion is very promising and appears to be in the lead for mainstream XR glasses so far.
In general, it appears that everyone here misjudged and betted against Meta and Zuck when they were at $93 with calls for Zuck to be 'fired' when the stock crashed. [0] Now the stock is at all time highs.
Remember. They didn't even mention Threads. At all. It is another way for them to monetize that if they want to.
That is true founder mode and the death of Meta Platforms Inc. has been absolutely exaggerated.
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#8> Orion has the largest field of view in the smallest AR glasses form to date.
Did they say what it is, specifically?
Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
#9Wow. Something seems to have really changed at Meta in the last few years. I really thought the company had run out of innovation juice during its peak evangelism of "the metaverse." And I know I wasn't alone in that sentiment. But they continue to impress across the board.
I mean. The #1 web framework is made by Meta... (React is one of the all time top repositories on GitHub) But that aside, the real issue is when they try to force users of unrelated products into Facebook. I'll likely never buy a Meta device because they bothered to try at all.
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#10This is the form factor that I always wanted from HoloLens (which I own). The release is very light on details of field of view and resolution (other than "best ever" puffery), that's where we'll get a better sense of actual use cases. The ball game shown looked very rudimentary in terms of only taking place in a small directly-in-front-of-user sense. This is also where HoloLens games fell flat -- you'd turn your head slightly to the left or right, and suddenly key game elements would vanish.
Edit -- the home page says 70-degree FoV. Not bad, better than HoloLens (45-degree FoV if I recall), but perhaps not enough to turn your head to the person next to you while still having game elements persist in vision