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My Key Takeaways from Meta Connect 2024: After months of rumours, the Quest 3S is finally here, and unsurprisingly, most of the leaks were true. And really, there's nothing much to say about it, an affordable device at just $299 with decent passthrough and display for mixed reality. With $200 less than the Quest 3, this pricing could significantly influence holiday shopping decisions. At Connect, Meta also released the plat form for Photorealistic environments, which users can create using their phones, not long ago Varjo released the similar service for enterprise and now it's Meta, but IMO the Meta's Hyperscape has better quality. However, for me, the most exciting news in the Quest lineup isn’t about the headset itself—it’s the passthrough camera API. Developers have been asking for this for ages, and its release next year will unlock a whole new wave of apps and experiences. Think custom object tracking, real-world interactions, and environmental scanning—this is the next big leap for mixed reality. On the smart glasses front, Zuck said it best: "Glasses are the new AI device category." And I couldn’t agree more. Glasses are perfectly positioned as the next big AI interface, offering a device that’s always with you, see and hear the world as you do. The Meta x RayBan has some good updates this year on the software side, memory recall to ask and retrieve something you want the glasses to memorise, real time translation now works in Spanish and English, the latency still exist but it's usable. Sad news is none of this will be available for EU users for now, just like Apple AI features. To no-one surprise, AI was once again in focus at Connect, with lightweight models that can run on phones and glasses. This local AI processing enhances privacy, keeps data on your device, and could help lower costs in the long run. The highlight for me? Project Orion—Meta’s advanced AR glasses with holographic displays, wide FOV at 70 degrees, compute pucks, eye tracking, hand tracking, and neural band interactions. My first impression of the Orion is it's well done, same FOV with the Magic Leap 2 at much smaller footprint, and it's holographic, home made silicon also mean that it's optimised. It’s a glimpse into the future of AR, though we're still years away from seeing it in the market, some says 2027 but I doubt it's true. In the meantime, I believe there’s a market for simpler, transitional device, series of smart glasses that are lighter, with basic yet bright displays for outdoor use. For the neural interaction bands, I think they are overdoing on that one, of course I have my bias but as showcased in Meta Connect it’s mostly for microgestures, something that SoundxVision rings have already refined for quite a while in a more scalable way. And finally, the biggest upgrade this year? Zuck himself! It’s incredible to see how much he’s evolved over the years—definitely a more dynamic, improved version of himself.