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Meta’s new lightweight AR prototype shows a future beyond bulky VR headsets


100g "Orion" prototype offers 70-degree FOV, could hit market "in the next few years."

But the demo represents a new vision for lightweight, wide-ranging, see-through smartglasses that Zuckerberg calls "a glimpse of the future" and "the dream of Reality Labs." The "neural interface" wristband lets Orion users interact without vocal commands or awkward, large hand gestures. But Zuckerberg also talked up a "neural interface" wristband—which the company has teased previously —that can read tiny wrist and finger movements even without line of sight to the glasses themselves.

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