Meta’s fresh shrewd glasses look like the future

You can’t buy Meta’s most impressive fresh product, shrewd glasses codenamed Orion. You might be able to buy something similar in a few years, but most of us will never be able to wear them. But that doesn’t mean they’re any less impressive or any less significant. Orion is Meta’s statement of purpose: AR glasses truly are the future and that we will eventually get there.

The occasion for all this news was Meta Connect, so we’re also looking at all the other announcements from Connect. There are fresh shrewd glasses, fresh VR headsets, fresh star AI to replace the elderly star AI, voice modes and more. But let’s be candid: we’re mostly talking about Orion. It’s either vaporware, a science project, a prototype, the undisputed future, or somewhere in the middle of a Venn diagram of all of these things. And the fact that they exist at all says a lot about where we are in the evolution of technology.

If you want to learn more about everything we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started, starting with Orion and Meta’s other fresh gadgets:

And other Meta Connect news:

And in the lightning round: