Meta’s new smart glasses look like the future

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On The Vergecast: Everything we saw astatine Meta Connect, much chaos astatine OpenAI, and AI gadgets galore.

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with implicit a decennary of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

Sep 27, 2024, 1:03 PM UTC

A photograph of Meta Connect, implicit a Vergecast illustration.

You can’t bargain Meta’s astir awesome caller product, the astute glasses codenamed Orion. You mightiness beryllium capable to bargain thing benignant of similar them, a fewer years from now, but astir of america volition ne'er get to truthful overmuch arsenic deterioration them. That doesn’t needfully marque them little impressive, though, oregon little important. Orion is simply a connection of intent from Meta: that AR glasses truly are the future, and that we’re yet going to get there.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Alex Heath joins the amusement to archer america each astir his acquisition with Orion — 2 hours successful the glasses of the future, playing Pong with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and making smoothies and doing each sorts of different things. He besides tells america astir his speech with Zuckerberg (subscribe to Decoder!) astir AR, AI, and the aboriginal of conscionable astir everything.

The juncture for each this quality was Meta Connect, truthful we besides spell done each the different announcements from Connect. There are caller smart glasses, caller VR headsets, caller celebrity AIs to regenerate the aged personage AIs, dependable modes, and more. But let’s beryllium honest: we mostly speech astir Orion. It’s either vaporware, a subject project, a prototype, the unquestionable future, oregon determination successful the halfway of the Venn diagram of each those things. And the information that they beryllium astatine each says a batch astir wherever we are successful the improvement of technology.

Once we yet get done with Meta, we interaction connected each the enforcement and firm changes going connected astatine OpenAI. Then it’s clip for a lightning round, successful which we speech astir that caller Jony Ive profile, pixel-peep the PS5 Pro, praise Google’s singular caller gadget run, and wonderment precisely however galore radical are still utilizing their Rabbit R1. It’s a batch of AI gadgets today.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with Orion and Meta’s different caller gadgets:

And successful different Meta Connect news:

And connected OpenAI:

And successful the lightning round: