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03 Nov

Meta’s Orion prototype offers a glimpse into our AR future

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If you’re excited, or even just a little curious, about the future of augmented reality, Meta’s Orion prototype makes the most compelling case yet for the technology.For Meta, Orion is about more than finally making AR glasses a reality. It’s also the company’s best shot at becoming less dependent on Apple and Google’s app stores, and the rules that come with them. If Orion succeeds, then maybe we won’t need smartphones for much at all. Glasses, Zuckerberg , might eventually become “the main way we do computing.”At the moment, it’s still way too early to know if Zuckerberg’s bet will…

25 Sep

Meta Missed Out on Smartphones. Can Smart Glasses Make Up for It?

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Meta has dominated online social connections for the past 20 years, but it missed out on making the smartphones that primarily delivered those connections. Now, in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar effort to position itself at the forefront of connected hardware, Meta is going all in on computers for your face.At its annual Connect developer event today in Menlo Park, California, Meta showed off its new, more affordable Oculus Quest 3S virtual reality headset and its improved, AI-powered Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. But the headliner was Orion, a prototype pair of holographic display glasses that chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said have been…

25 Sep

Meta Teaches Its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Some New AI Tricks

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The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are the first real artificial intelligence wearable success story. In fact, they are actually quite good. They’ve got that chic Ray-Ban styling, meaning they don’t look as goofy as some of the bulkier, heavier attempts at mixed reality face computers. The on-board AI agent can answer questions, and even identify what you’re looking at using the embedded cameras. People also love using voice commands to capture photos and videos of whatever is right in front of them without whipping out their phone.Soon, Meta’s smart glasses are getting some more of these AI-powered voice features. Meta CEO…

20 Sep

Meta Connect Starts Wednesday. Here’s What to Expect

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Meta Connect, the big developer event and hardware showcase from the company that runs Facebook and Instagram, is kicking off next week. Meta is likely to show off its new VR and mixed-reality technology, put a shiny polish on its meandering metaverse ambitions, and delve into all the fresh ways it plans to squeeze artificial intelligence into every crevice of its devices and services.The event takes place on Wednesday September 25, starting at 10 am Pacific time. The keynote address, where most of the new stuff will be announced, will be livestreamed. The host for the event will be Meta…

19 Sep

Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset

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When Palmer Luckey was hacking together virtual reality headsets at his startup Oculus VR in the mid-2010s, he would sometimes imagine a future in which US soldiers used the technology to sharpen their battlefield senses.That vision is now virtually a reality after a deal that will bring software from his defense startup, Anduril, to a US Army head-mounted display developed by Microsoft.“The idea is to enhance soldiers,” Luckey tells WIRED over Zoom from his home in Newport Beach, California. “Their visual perception, audible perception—basically to give them all the vision that Superman has, and then some, and make them more…

24 Aug

Snap is reportedly working on a new pair of augmented reality Spectacles

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Snap is getting ready to show off a new pair of augmented reality glasses, according to a new report in . The glasses would be the fifth-generation of Spectacles, and the second pair to have augmented reality capabilities. CEO Evan Spiegel will reportedly unveil the glasses at the company’s upcoming Partner Summit event on September 17.The company last introduced a pair of AR glasses . The glasses were only ever made available to a small handful of creators and developers, who came up with some interesting experiments that combined Snapchat’s lenses with the AR displays. But, as I noted in…

15 Aug

Your Meta headset can now display the output of any HDMI or DisplayPort device

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Our lives are full of screens in this digital age but sometimes you can’t access them or you need a bigger one for your tired eyes. Meta announced a new app called Meta Quest HDMI Link for its Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Pro headsets that can connect any of your devices with HDMI or DisplayPort and send their output to your VR.The HDMI Link app is available to download to your headset now from Meta’s App Lab.HDMI Link lets you watch videos, look at your computer and play games on the headset in your Quest headset from any…

14 Jul

The Metaverse Was Supposed to Be Your New Office. You’re Still on Zoom

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When Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta in 2021, he estimated the metaverse could reach a billion people over a decade. Not long after, Bill Gates predicted that within two or three years “most virtual meetings will move from 2D camera image grids—which I call the Hollywood Squares model, although I know that probably dates me—to the metaverse, a 3D space with digital avatars.”In fall 2022, Microsoft announced a partnership with Meta that would bring Mesh, a platform for collaboration in mixed reality, and its set of Microsoft 365 applications to Meta’s Quest products. Meta has launched Horizon Workrooms for…