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Meta Orion could be our AR future, but not with the lenses you'll get
- Meta Orion is a pair of AR glasses featuring see-through screens, hand and eye tracking, neural input, and the ability to integrate virtual environments with your real one almost seamlessly.
- What's clear from all hands-on demos is that this is real. The AR glasses function more or less as Zuckerberg promised.
- The glasses offer full-frame 'displays' that use waveform microLED projector technology to light up the transparent silicon carbide lens with an image, meaning that the AR experience will live wherever the wearer casts their eyes.
- However, the Verge's hands-on report suggested this version of Meta Orion will never see the light of day.
- Meta is already working on thinner and lighter versions of the glasses as the silicon carbide lenses can't be manufactured affordably at scale, which means Orion V2 will not have them.
- As a result, the shipping Orions, if and when they arrive, will have a smaller field of view, meaning the AR magic breaks quickly and will only be available to a portion of the wearer's viewport.
- If the final shipping Orion has just plastic or glass, the experience won't be the same, and Orion 2, which may still cost as much as a laptop will be yet another wearable AR disappointment.
- The key to a transformative AR experience is not just its ability to connect the physical world to your virtual one, it's about how borders don't break that illusion. A smaller field of view will mean that the AR magic breaks quickly and will only be available to a portion of the wearer's viewport.
- Meta Orion could be like wearing regular glasses with a hidden superpower; however, it's doubtful that the glasses will ever live up to the initial hype.
- Orion 2 is expected to be thinner and lighter but come with a smaller field of view and cost as much as a laptop.
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