I tried the just-announced Meta Orion AR glasses a few weeks back. It was a beautiful glimpse into the future akin to the first time you experience Waymo or Tesla self-driving.
My quick takeaways from the demo:
1/ Wearing see-through AR glasses is 10x better—and not just
I tried the new Meta Ray-Ban Display “Hypernova" glasses that Meta just announced (thanks for the demo @ahimel!)
TL;DR it's a really well-executed take on a simple idea: a crisp heads-up display with precise micro-gesture control of mini apps
My quick takeaways from the demo I
Excited to finally share what I've been working on since leaving Facebook/Meta. I've joined forces with @JMRothberg to build Detect as its CEO — a consumer diagnostics company grounded in science, design & engineering. Bloomberg wrote about us: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Taking a new role @facebook building a global AR/VR partner ecosystem based in NYC, after 2+ amazing years leading the @oculus team. With Quest shipping 5/21, our first-gen VR lineup is now complete.Time for me to take on the next big challenge—bringing AR and VR to more people!
Today at #CES2018 we announced @Xiaomi as our hardware partner for the global launch of Oculus Go, our first Standalone VR product. We also jointly announced Mi VR Standalone, a new VR headset based on Oculus technology exclusively for the Chinese market
#OC5: Mark just announced Oculus Quest, our first all-in-one 6DoF VR headset w/ positional tracking & Touch controllers, 50+ titles available at launch. Oculus Quest represents a new class of VR experience and will ship in Spring 2019 for US$399. More details in a bit!
Some personal news: Today is my last day at Facebook Reality Labs, after 4 years working on projects that have been more exciting and more challenging than anything I've encountered in my career. More on that here:
