Meta and Ray-ban are working on new AR glasses
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his company is working with Ray-ban on creating new augmented reality glasses.
It is coming sometime in the future, and it’s in addition to the existing partnership that Meta and Ray-ban have on Ray-ban Stories glasses. Zuckerberg said that AR glasses will get more sophisticated over time. Rocco Basilico of Luxotica showed off a demo of the new tech. And Ray-ban Stories will get a Spotify update.
The announcement was part of the company’s Meta Connect event where Zuckerberg talked about things coming the future. And Meta is working on a lot of things.
Meta also showed off new technologies for people with accessibility challenges. One showed a controller tied to someone’s wrist that could control a game with minimal body movement.
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It is creating Project Aria research glasses to map a public place so that people who can’t see can get around better. There are research techniques to make virtual objects a part of your real world, said Meta’s chief scientist Mike Abrash. He showed a demo of using virtual hands to interact with a real clothing in another location. He wants to make you feel, at a gut level, that you’re sharing a social space with other people.
Meta is also working on updates to its Codec avatars, which create ultra-realistic 3D avatars by scanning people in a room full of sensors. Zuckerberg did a scan himself and it looks pretty real. And creepy, of
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