Episode 615: Fancy Glasses

Core Intuition

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.

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