When can we get the Unity SDK? 🤣
There's SO much to talk about with the release of Meta's Orion AR glasses, but it occured to me that there's a really interesting percieved value exchange going on here... When you consider that Meta wanted to release this as a consumer product but ultimately conceded they could only make 1000 for demoing purposes, it suggests that the cost to manufacture is still somewhere in the tens of thousands of dollars. However, after watching the release demos and reviews, it's evident that the current generation of mixed-reality headsets (Quest 3 and AVP) pretty much already do (or soon will be able to) everything that these glasses promise, and in some cases, do it better (resolution, framerate etc). So, yes—the idea of *true augmented reality* (i.e. without pass-through cameras) is pretty neat, but what this whole exercise highlights is the drive and desperation to shrink this technology down and create a version that bypasses the tech nerds and early adopters like me and goes straight for the consumer at the middle of the bell-curve. By pulling off the magic trick of making the tech disappear almost entirely, we arrive at what has been commonly referred to as 'the final medium'. #meta #Orion #augmentedreality #virtualreality #