Meta shows off prototype augmented-reality glasses

Facebook owner Meta Platforms showed off its first working prototype of augmented-reality glasses, called Orion, during its annual Connect conference at its California headquarters on Wednesday (September 25), along with updates to its existing virtual-reality and artificial-intelligence products. "This is the physical world with holograms overlaid on," Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said after pulling out the chunky black glasses from a metal case dramatically brought to him on stage. The Orion glasses are made of magnesium alloy and powered by custom silicon designed by Meta. Users will be able to interact with the glasses through hand-tracking voice and wrist-based neural interface. Zuckerberg called Orion a “dev kit” and said Meta planned to work on making it smaller, sleeker and more low-cost for consumers later on. Meta also announced a slew of software enhancements to the AI assistant that has driven interest in the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, making it possible for users, for example, to scan QR codes and stream music from Spotify in response to voice prompts. Later this year, the company plans to add video capabilities and the ability to perform real-time language translation between English and French, Italian or Spanish, and Zuckerberg demonstrated the real-time translation. The Facebook owner kicked off the Connect event with expanded bets on artificial intelligence, announcing a raft of new product offerings for its ChatGPT-like chatbot and plans to start automatically injecting personalized images created by the bot into people's Facebook and Instagram feeds. (Production: Nathan Frandino) Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch full episodes on iWantTFC for FREE here: http://iwanttfc.com Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS Twitter: https://twitter.com/abscbnnews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abscbnnews