Hands-On: Meta Orion Augmented Reality Glasses!

We go hands-on with Orion, the augmented reality glasses prototype that Meta's Reality Labs has spent the better part of a decade developing. It’s taken years and countless millions spent to get to this point: a 98 gram pair of glasses with an optical display system that can put holograms almost everywhere your eyes can look and an input system that seemingly reads your mind. The catch: each pair costs almost $10,000 to make--the kind of moonshot device they internally call a Time Machine. Let's dive deep into how Orion’s technology works, what it’s like to use them, and what this Time Machine reveals about the future of augmented reality.

Shot by Joey Fameli and edited by Norman Chan
Music by Jinglepunks
Additional media courtesy of Meta

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[CaptainC]

This video is a thousand times better than any other press video that's covered the Orions! So much detail! Thank you Norm!!!!

[XenxeroX]

Can you imagine if we had had these when Pokemon Go released?

[madcolor]

I haven't touched these, but I have been paying close attention to AR development for a long long time. This is the first product I've seen that gives me hope that AR will actually be available and mainstream within my lifetime. Quite amazing. Hats off to Meta.

[HL]

"I don't know the exact details of every layer of that optical stack..." Explains every layer in detail and how the optics recombine in the final layer LOL

[donjones]

"nano-etched into silicone carbide". 20 years ago these would have been sci fi buzz words. 40 years ago they wouldn't have existed even in sci fi.

[DigitalKid]

This is legit one of the most informative tech vids I’ve seen in a long time. Excellent work.

[PiotrStaszewski]

Thanks Norm and the Tested team for producing this video. I believe the neural interface stuff is the most killer idea in this whole space, and in a long time. Would work on that.

[SpicyMelonYT]

This guy just straight spitting actual bars with how many things he was saying about the complexity of the device was truly inspiring. I can easily tell he knew a deep knowledge about all the problems and challenges that the teams needed to face!

[romanmgelman]

Just last week I was showing off the Rayban Metas to a couple friends and the most common sentiment was “I wish they had a display”. I told them “I’m sure it’ll happen sooner than we think”. And here it is! Can’t wait for the consumer model 😍

[ninjanerdstudent]

The fact that these devices exist has already impressed me immensely.

[MrStimpanzee]

So many cool ideas for apple to claim they invented in the future!

[Hugh-S]

Just think how good this will be in a few years when it's refined. Excited for this.

[Gamersbstfrind]

Norm seriously does the best interviews. His questions are perfectly formed to both be encouraging to the subject but also prompt for the most informative answers. And most of all he covers the questions that real people who are interested in these products would want to know. Like this was the case when he interviewed the guy who owns the minis shop about paints and is just as true for something as technologically advanced as the Orions. I seriously cant express enough how much i enjoy watching Norm interviewing people because it leaves me with every answer i would have wanted had i been doing the interview myself.

[AgentOracle]

As someone who wears Bluetooth glasses with prescription lenses, I'm incredibly hype, the price tag might put it out of my range today, but time is on my side.

[MrNoipe]

I clicked so fast, Tested is the only people I can expect to do a non-hype, objective review.

[dfgaJK]

This is the AR I've envisaged since childhood. From day one I wanted to invest in magic leap because I thought they'd be the ones to do it, (I never did)... but they sort of gave up. I hope Meta with all their money can pull though and make this a reality!

[outoftouch]

Yo Milhouse called he wants his glasses back

[williamseipp]

Man thats SO much work. They had to make a custom protocol so they could just send data in batches so the radio wouldn't fry the glasses?

Seriously impressive. Im sure the team is thrilled to see their baby out in the world.🎉

[danielnovak]

WOW meta killed it on this project!!! They have created something that is so far ahead of the curve in every way possible And also is so far ahead of every other product like it by leaps and bounds.
This guy In the video seems to have headed up the team of people who actually made this thing happen. I don't know who he is. I don't know if he is a well-known person or not. But after this, he most certainly should be because any one of the brand new technologies they came up with would be a major triumph let alone all of them and then successfully integrating them into seemingly seamless working homogeneous product, should get a promotion, a huge raise and whatever else he wanted.
I'd be interested to see how they are planning on mass producing this product. I wonder how long we'll have to wait. Zuckerberg must be pretty confident that other companies are not going to be able to bring something to market of comparable incredibleness.and scope seeing as they just gave the world a look at all of the new technologies they have come up with...If metta is successful in mass production, which I'm confident they will be, and bringing this to marvel to market, even if it is unaffordable to the average person they will definitely reach a new level of success!!!

[LCTesla]

Between this, llama and the quest line I've really been liking what meta puts out lately. They seem one of the few companies these days with a clear roadmap towards making a sci-fi future reality.