Key insights

• User Experience and Potential

  • 🕹️ Comparing the EMG system to IMU for gesture recognition, potential and comfort of EMG wristbands, and performance issues in the AR glasses demo.
  • 🎮 The Orion prototype shows promise with world-locked visual feedback, easy micro gestures for interaction, and multiplayer holographic games, but acknowledges the need for improvements before becoming a consumer device.

• Design and Technical Features

  • 👓 The emphasis on precise alignment of display images and outward camera systems, real-time adjustments, low power consumption, and a separate wireless compute puck for processing is notable.
  • 🔄 Unique design decisions such as skeletal modeling and ML processing through wristbands for gestures are highlighted.

• Optical Stack and Display Characteristics

  • 🔍 The Orion glasses use an optical stack with polarized layer, microLED display projector, combiner, and eye tracking support, aiming to include corrective lensing and maintain the glasses' physical profile.
  • 🖥️ The display offers a 70° diagonal FOV, fix focus, and around 13 pixels per degree density, with plans to improve the density of display projectors for sharper images.

• Enhancing Physical Presence and Connection

  • 🤝 The company aims to bridge the gap between remote and collocated interactions by developing technologies that enhance physical presence and connection using holograms.
  • 🔮 Hardware components such as glasses, wireless compute puck, and neural wristbands are designed to achieve a wide field of view in a socially acceptable form factor, utilizing advanced materials like silicon carbide for improved performance.

• Device Development and Technology

  • 💡 Discussion about the complex technology and investments behind the development of the device, focusing on challenges, improvements for the next version, battery life, control interfaces, and AI integration.
  • 🔌 Plans to use AI and gestures for seamless interaction, to miniaturize technology for integration into existing products, and distinguish between AR and MR devices.

• Augmented Reality Glasses Overview

  • ⚙️ Meta presents the Orion augmented reality glasses prototype with high-tech features including Holograms, mind-reading input system, and significant R&D investment.
  • ⌚ The glasses are described as a 'time machine' with fully working prototype for software development, involving a complex display system with micro projectors, micro LEDs, and nano-etched waveguides, providing a wide field of view and high optical clarity.

Q&A

• What features does the meta AI on Rayband metas provide, and what are the plans for the consumer version of Orion?

  The meta AI on Rayband metas provides world-locked visual feedback, easy micro gestures for interaction, and multiplayer holographic games. The prototype of Orion is impressive, but the team acknowledges the need for improvements before making it a consumer device. The consumer version may have trade-offs in terms of display quality and price, aiming to replace the phone as a primary computing device.

• What potential do the EMG wristbands offer, and what were the findings from the AR glasses demo?

  The EMG wristbands are highly praised for their potential and comfort. The AR glasses demo showed promise but had some performance issues.

• How is the alignment of display images and outward camera systems emphasized in the Orion glasses' design?

  The Orion glasses emphasize the precise alignment of display images and outward camera systems, with real-time adjustments, low power consumption, and a separate wireless compute puck for processing. Unique design decisions such as skeletal modeling and ML processing through wristbands for gestures are also highlighted.

• What is included in the optical stack of the Orion glasses?

  The optical stack of the Orion glasses includes a polarized layer, microLED display projector, combiner, and eye tracking support. The glasses also aim to include corrective lensing and maintain their physical profile.

• How does the company aim to use the Orion glasses to enhance physical presence and connection?

  The company aims to bridge the gap between remote and collocated interactions by developing technologies that allow for sharing content and engaging in shared experiences, using holograms to promote both remote and in-person connectivity. The hardware components are designed to achieve a wide field of view in a socially acceptable form factor.

• What aspects of the technology and investments behind the Orion glasses are discussed in the video?

  The video discusses the complex technology and investments behind the Orion glasses, focusing on challenges, improvements for the next version, battery life, control interfaces, and AI integration.

• What makes the display system of the Orion glasses unique?

  The complex display system of the Orion glasses includes micro projectors, micro LEDs, and nano-etched waveguides, providing a wide field of view and high optical clarity.

• What are the key features of the Orion augmented reality glasses?

  The Orion glasses feature high-tech components, Holograms, a mind-reading input system, and significant R&D investment. They are described as a 'time machine' and provide a fully working prototype for software development.

• 00:01 Meta presents the Orion augmented reality glasses prototype, a high-tech device with Holograms, mind-reading input system, and significant R&D investment. The glasses are described as a 'time machine' and offer a fully working prototype for software development. The technology involves a complex display system with micro projectors, micro LEDs, and nano-etched waveguides, providing a wide field of view and high optical clarity.
• 05:43 The speaker discusses the complex technology and investments behind the development of a new device, focusing on challenges, improvements for the next version, battery life, control interfaces, and AI integration.
• 11:16 Discussion about the use of AI and gestures for seamless interaction, plans to miniaturize technology for integration into existing products, and the distinction between AR and MR devices.
• 16:49 The company aims to bridge the gap between remote and collocated interactions by enabling technology to enhance physical presence and connection. They are developing technologies that allow for sharing content and engaging in shared experiences, promoting both remote and in-person connectivity using holograms. The hardware components of the technology, including the glasses, wireless compute puck, and neural wristbands, are designed to achieve a wide field of view in a socially acceptable form factor, utilizing advanced materials like silicon carbide for improved performance.
• 23:36 The Orion glasses use an optical stack with polarized layer, microLED display projector, combiner, and eye tracking support. They aim to include corrective lensing and maintain the glasses' physical profile. The display offers a 70° diagonal FOV, fix focus, and around 13 pixels per degree density. The holograms are bright and colorful but not fully opaque. They are working on higher density display projectors for sharper images.
• 30:49 The glasses emphasize the precise alignment of display images and outward camera systems, with real-time adjustments, low power consumption, and a separate wireless compute puck for processing. The compute puck can last all day and has unique power-saving protocols. The glasses have unique design decisions such as skeletal modeling and ML processing through wristbands for gestures.
• 38:15 The EMG system is being compared to the IMU and is highly praised for its potential and comfort. The AR glasses demo showed promise but had some performance issues.
• 45:31 The meta AI on Rayband metas provides world-locked visual feedback, easy micro gestures for interaction, and multiplayer holographic games. The prototype of Orion is impressive but the team acknowledges the need for improvements before making it a consumer device. The consumer version may have trade-offs in terms of display quality and price, aiming to replace the phone as a primary computing device. The technology in Orion may influence future Quest and Rayband meta products.