Hands On With Meta’s New Orion Augmented Reality Glasses | Commentary

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Meta’s moonshot device arrives. Will this justify the billions of dollars that Meta has spent on its Reality Labs?

Meta "Orion" glasses
Wearing the glasses during a demo at Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters this week. (credit: Alex Kantrowitz)

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 mainstream augmented reality feel real for the first time. And while still internal to Meta, a broader release seems inevitable. 

I put on Orion for about 30 minutes at Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters. The device felt like a normal pair of glasses, albeit with a bit more bulk and weight than usual. Then the display came on.

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