The CEO said Mark Zuckerberg After pulling a pair of black glasses from a metal case on stage, “This is the physical world intertwined with holograms.”
“At the moment, I think the right way to look at it is,” he added. Orion It’s a time machine to the future which I think is going to be very exciting.”
The Orion glasses are made of magnesium alloy and powered by electronic chips designed by Meta.
Users will be able to interact with the glasses through hand tracking, a technology that helps work in a virtual or mixed reality environment and interact with it without the need for separate controllers, as well as through voice and a neural control interface placed on the wrist.
Zuckerberg described Orion as a “developmental suite” and said Meta plans to work on making it smaller, sleeker and less expensive for consumers later.
Shifting towards the “metaverse”
Big tech companies have been working on augmented reality devices for years, though most of their efforts have failed, such as the Glass glasses. Google.
Zuckerberg was about the direction of the world’s largest social media company in 2021 towards building systems “Metaverse“Which delves into the worlds of virtual and augmented reality, but high development costs and technological hurdles have hindered product delivery.
Meta aims to deliver its first commercial AR glasses to consumers in 2027, a source said ahead of the conference, by which time technological advances should drive down production costs.
Zuckerberg showed off how the AR glasses could display multiple small windows with WhatsApp and Messenger texts, video calls, and short Instagram video clips, though the presentation offered few details about the glasses’ capabilities.
AI Assistant
Meta also revealed a series of improvements to its Assistant software. artificial intelligence Which sparked interest in Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses, which allow users to scan QR codes and play music from Spotify in response to voice commands.
Later this year, the company plans to add video capabilities and the ability to do instant language translation between English, French, Italian or Spanish.
Meta also announced a set of new product offerings for its chatbot similar to ChatGPT, and plans to start incorporating the program’s automatically generated avatars into posts. Facebook And Instagram for people.
Among the AI updates also announced at the conference was a voice update for the digital assistant called Meta AI, which will now respond to voice commands.
“I see voice as a more natural way to interact with AI than written text,” Zuckerberg explained.
The company said that more than 400 million people use Meta AI monthly.
