Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6R2VT)
See that little circle? That's a camera. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge All around Meta's Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I'm not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters' DSLRs. I'm not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta's smart glasses, which Meta hopes we'll all - one day, in some form - wear.
I visited Meta for this year's Connect conference, where just about every hardware product involved cameras. They're on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that got a software update, the new Quest 3S virtual reality headset, and Meta's prototype Orion AR glasses. Orion is what Meta calls a time machine": a functioning example of what full-fledged AR could look like, years before it will be consumer-ready.
But on Meta's campus, at least, the Ray-Bans were already everywhere. It...