I tried Orion, Mark Zuckerberg's $10k face computer

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Mark Zuckerberg, along with most of the men running big tech companies, has spent many years and tons of money trying to put a computer on your face. Now it looks like he’s getting very close to making it a reality: He’s just debuted Orion, a pair of bulky — but not too bulky — glasses that are also a computer. You can’t buy these things yet - they cost Meta a ton to make — but Meta thinks you’ll buy something like it in the not-too-distance future. The crucial caveat here is that we don’t know if this actually true. And it’s possible we never find out - there could be engineering challenges that mean Meta can never get this thing into mass production. But Zuckerberg certainly seems confident. I got to try Orion briefly, so I want to share some of my impressions at the top of this episde. Then I talk to the Verge’s Alex Heath, who is both a face computer expert and a Mark Zuckerberg expert, and got to use Orion and talk to Zuckerberg at the same time. We talk about why Zuckerberg is building these things, why he’s showing them off — and why Zuckerberg is spending a lot of time telling everyone that his is a new Zuckerberg, and that he’s done with politics and done apologizing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:42.2	I'm the chief correspondent at Business Insider where I cover tech and media.
1:46.5	And today we are talking about the future of computing, maybe.
1:51.8	That's going to sound like hyperbole.
1:53.4	Maybe it is.
1:54.1	But today is the day Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are showing off Orion, which does the thing lots of people say they want out of a gadget.
2:01.4	It's a computer shrunk down to a pair of glasses.
2:05.7	It's pretty wild stuff.
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