5 biggest announcements at Meta Connect this week (including an AR glasses prototype)
Summary
The exterior is getting a slight retool, with a triangle-shaped series of "spider-eye" lenses, and it will come with Touch Plus controllers and Batman: Arkham Shadow. Metas biggest advantage over Apples Vision Pro to date is the price difference, and this new device will only widen that gap. "Hey Meta, call this number" or "scan this QR code") • Multimodal video AI to get real-time help as youre doing things, such as styling your outfit as you pick out pieces of clothing • And a pretty cool partnership with "Be My Eyes," which provides volunteering services to guide blind/low-vision users by looking through their Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. Orion applies holograms to your vision of reality instead of capturing and reimaging whats in front of you, a process commonly known as pass-through. Meta showed off a tool that takes Facebook and Instagram Reels recorded in another language and translates them to your preference, going so far as mimicking the original speakers voice and syncing lip movement to match.