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Hands On With Meta’s New Orion Augmented Reality Glasses

Meta's moonshot device arrives.

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Alex Kantrowitz
Sep 27, 2024
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Wearing the glasses during a demo at Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters this week.

This week, I became one of the few people outside Meta to try its new ‘Orion’ augmented reality glasses. The product is a technological marvel, layering computing on top of the real world in a lightweight wearable device. It’s so good — bright, smart, and fast — it makes mains…

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