Meta's CTO seemed to suggest the company could demo a highly advanced true AR glasses prototype in 2024.
Meta has been working on AR glasses for at least eight years now, spending tens of billions of dollars on the project that Mark Zuckerberg hopes will one day deliver him an "iPhone moment". Last year The Verge's Alex Heath reported that Meta no longer plans to release its first AR glasses, codenamed Orion, as an actual product. Instead, Heath wrote, Meta will distribute them to select developers in 2024 and also use them as a demonstration of the future of AR. In an interview with Heath this week in his weekly newsletter, Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth seemed to confirm Heath's past reporting. Bosworth directly confirmed to Heath that a small number of Meta employees will begin internally testing the glasses next year, and separately said "I think there’s a pretty good chance that people will get a chance to play with it in 2024." He also claimed, in some of the strongest terms we've ever seen, that the glasses are the most advanced consumer electronics device ever made: "It’s probably our most exciting prototype that we’ve had to date. (...) LCoS displays are essentially LCD microdisplays, though using reflection instead of transmission to form an image. LCoS isn't a new technology, it has been used in movie projectors since the 90s as well as in AR products like HoloLens 1 and Magic Leap 2. They are less power efficient and less bright than microLED has the potential to be, but much less expensive in the short term. While the silicon carbide waveguide in the Orion glasses can reportedly achieve a field of view around 70° diagonal, the glass waveguide in the actual product will only have a field of view of around 50° diagonal, like HoloLens 2 and Nreal. We harshly criticized the field of view of both HoloLens 2 and Nreal Light in our reviews of each product. For comparison, opaque headsets which use camera passthrough have fields of view well in excess of 100° degrees diagonal. Ma reported that the goal is to ship this AR glasses product around 2027. (...) Source
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