There’s been a lot of chatter around Meta’s ‘Orion’ AR glasses.
Business Insider first reported in February that Meta was aiming to show off and demo its first true AR glasses in the fall at Connect and that the prototype was referred to internally as “Orion.”
Publicly, Zuckerberg hasn’t held back from teasing that a new pair of AR glasses are in the works. A February photo on Threads was called out this summer for having a pair of mystery glasses in the background.
The Meta CEO responded to the question about the glasses with, “Will be ready to share more later this year.”
The Connect keynote could be the time to officially introduce the public to these glasses, which are reportedly separate from the Meta Ray-Ban’s, which don’t feature a screen in the lenses, and the bulkier Quest headset, which is all about the VR screens and AR passthrough cameras. The “Orion” AR glasses, which are expected to integrate visuals into the lenses, aren’t expected to go on sale in the near term — but seeing them demoed would offer an interesting glimpse into where Meta envisions the future of AR glasses is headed.
Zuckerberg said in an interview earlier this year that the Orion glasses won’t be as stylish and slim as the Meta Ray-Ban product.
