During the firm’s annual Connect developer conference held on Wednesday, the Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg displayed several new AI and mixed reality devices, including the prototype of futuristic holographic glasses. This is in line with the strategy of the social media firm to remain in the forefront of the ever-changing technology defining the next era of computing in the industry.
Zuckerberg presented its Orion prototype, which is a set of smart glasses that would allow the user to view 3-D images over real-world surroundings controlled by a “neural interface” so that brain waves can actually perform the desired function.
The glasses have not been launched so far, and Zuckerberg did not reveal when, or at how much, the commercial launch would be feasible. He underscored that the concept of the prototype is an example of the future that the company is building.
These holographic smart glasses utilize a completely different kind of display, I would like to note, putting the glasses on. “This is not pass through, this is the reality which has holograms added on top of it” he explained.
The glasses do voice and ai, do hand and eye tracking, but there’s one other way you’ll be able to interact with the that’s pretty neat – neural interface – send a signal from you brain to the device,” Zuckerberg revealed.
In a little drama written for the audience attending the summit of Meta’s software developers and partners, the spectacles were finally bought onto stage in a silver metallic briefcase which was chained around the speaker’s hand.
The Orion glasses, which have been a technical impediment to the engineers of the company, will be a huge step for Meta that now has a very basic ‘smart glasses’ apparatus among its offerings. Meta also presented practical enhancements to the already existing Ray-Ban smart glasses, which are produced and supplied by EssilorLuxottica. These kinds of glasses do not include mixed reality; instead, they feature voice AIs for languages that appear, translate orally in real time while taking notes or creating reminders for the user, like an assigned parking space number.
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And the last quarter of the previous year, Meta Corp put tens of billions of dollars into constructing data centers to build for enormous generative AI models as they are trying to keep up with Google and Microsoft who are already ahead in the market. And it has, unsurprisingly, applied its AI systems to every internet application it owns, from Instagram and Facebook to Whatsapp.
Zuckerberg stated that Meta’s AI services were reported by approximately 500 million users, adding that the company is poised to become the owner of the most utilized AI, which is Meta AI. New voice features were added to the company’s AI products, such as those of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Dame Judi Dench. And it has announced the third version of the already released Llama language model, Llama 3.2, which is capable of processing images in addition to text, according to the publisher.
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Dressed in a black t-shirt, and wearing a slim fit black jeans which accentuated his recent style transformation, Facebook founder who is now 40 years old made an optimistic assessment of the achievements of the company which now has over seventy thousand employees and serves over 3.27 billion users across its products daily.
“It has been a hectic year. There is a lot of things we have been saying for a long time – it is coming true – I can now understand what the future of computing, of human interactions, is going to be like and it is truly incredible,” said Zuckerberg.
