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Meta Reveals Next Generation Aria Smart Glasses for Research and Experimentation

Road to VR

The company revealed its first iteration of Project Aria back in 2020, showing off a sensor-rich pair of glasses which the company used internally to train its machine perception systems, ultimately tackling some of the most complex issues in creating practical, all-day augmented reality glasses of the future.

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What is Project Aria and What Does it Mean for Meta’s Orion Glasses?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The Basics Project Aria, introduced by Meta in 2020 , is a research project created to help Meta develop its first set of wearable augmented reality devices. On a broad scale, it was the first evidence that Meta wasnt just interested in creating virtual reality headsets or software like Horizon Worlds. What is Project Aria?

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If you built an application without these patterns, the device was useless… an eye-tracking add-on was more practical than the NextMind dev-kit in a VR scene. When you are in virtual reality, you see the objects closer than they actually are. In VR the obects appear closer than they are. New opportunities for VR creators.