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Hands-on with Meta's Orion AR glasses prototype and the possible future of computing

CNBC senior media and tech correspondent Julia Boorstin experienced Meta's Orion AR glasses prototype, and was impressed by how lightweight they were.

The experimental glasses are part of Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar plans to build the next generation of personal computing for the so-called metaverse, a term used by Meta to describe people interacting with one another online in virtual 3D spaces. When wearing the AR glasses, Boorstin was able to see digital holograms displaying the visual icons of apps like Instagram, Facebook, and some extras like a browser and a video game mixed with the surroundings inside a small office at Meta's headquarters. When the Orion's miniaturized projectors, built in to the arms of the glasses, beam light into the silicon carbide lenses, users can see "holograms" in their field of vision, an experience Boorstin said "felt totally normal and very natural."

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