Episode 615: Fancy Glasses

Manton talks to Daniel about his Daniel’s latest experience trying to use his Apple Vision Pro. They react to Meta’s Orion glasses demo, and wonder how much of a threat, if any they’ll be to Apple. They consider the possibility that accessories like glasses should be tethered to a phone, as a high-performance, expensive piece of hardware the customer has already bought. Finally, whatever happened to Google’s interest in AR Glasses?

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Links:

Introducing Orion – Facebook’s blog post announcing their new augmented reality glasses.

Orion and Reality Labs – Ben Thompson interviews Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth about the new technologies.

Ray-Ban Meta Glasses – Meta’s less ambitious glasses, in collaboration with Ray-Ban.

Meta Quest – Meta’s considerable cheaper, lower-tech alternative to Apple Vision Pro.

Shipping vs. Shipping – The Talk Show episode 410 featuring Jason Snell.