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Hands-on with Orion, Meta’s first pair of AR glasses

Meta’s AR glasses are an impressive tease of what Mark Zuckerberg thinks will replace the smartphone.

Zuckerberg imagines that people will want to use AR glasses like Orion for two primary purposes: communicating with each other through digital information overlaid on the real world — which he calls “holograms” — and interacting with AI. While the company won’t comment, my sources say that Meta is planning to ship a pair of glasses with a smaller heads-up display that the wristband will also work with, codenamed Hypernova, as soon as next year. This decision is evident by the fact that there are multiple parts of Orion’s hardware that Meta isn’t using, from the front-facing cameras that can capture video but don’t to the disabled GPS in the compute puck.

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