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It’s just not a fun experience no matter the machine.
The prototype I wore felt fairly lightweight and certainly didn’t heat up as my 20-minute demo went on.
Scrolling with a flick of your thumb with the Orion glasses
I could always see and hear the world around me, without my peripheral vision getting cut off.
Among other improvements, Meta wants to slim down the form factor before its AR glasses launch commercially.
That’s a ways down the road, though not that far off as you might think.
Scrolling with a flick of your thumb with the Orion glasses
(Meta has merely said that a shipping version will be ready in “the near future.")
(More on those controls in a bit.)
Instead of glass, Meta uses silicon carbide for Orion’s lenses.
There’s another nice effect to the silicon carbide lenses.
It should allow more natural interactions with anyone sporting a pair of Orion glasses.
The glass frames are made out magnesium a material that’s rigid as well as lightweight.
Scrolling with a flick of your thumb with the Orion glasses
Hua tells me the rigidity is importnat to prevent any misalignment between the two display engines on the glasses.
And that’s important because there’s a lot of components hidden in the frames of those glasses.
The puck also manages low-latency graphics rendering AI tasks.
The glasses and puck connect wirelessly, and they don’t need to be right next to each other.
During my demos, I never needed to carry around the puck as I was using the glasses.
“So we use sensors… to capture the voltage change when you’re making gestures.”
Meta AR glasses prototypes from 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023.
Did that stop me from raising my hand into my field of view and making those gestures anyhow?
The gesture controls are pretty natural, too.
A middle finger/thumb pinch takes you to the app launcher, and repeating that gesture hides the same control.
Make a fist and flick your thumb forward and back when you want to scroll through something like anInstagramReel.
One of Meta’s demos allowed me to play pong with another Orion glass-wearing participant.
And the wider field of view for the Orion glasses makes collaboration and cooperation a little bit easier.
Certainly, that makes sense on some levels.
To show off Orion’s multitasking capabilities where I was watching Instagram Reels when a message came in.
To me, however, it felt a built overwhelming.
Less of that, kindly.
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