The biggest reveal at Meta’s Connect event was its long-promised , Orion. As expected, the prototype, each of which reportedly costs around $10,000, won’t be ready for the public any time soon.
In the meantime, Meta offered a glimpse of its new holographic avatars, which will allow people to talk with lifelike holograms in augmented reality. The holograms are Meta’s , a technology it’s been working on for several years. Mark Zuckerberg teased of this last year when he participated in a podcast interview “in the metaverse.”
That technology may now be closer than we think. Following the keynote at Connect, I sat down with Mark Rabkin, a VP at Meta leading Horizon OS and Quest, who shared more about Meta’s codec avatars and how they will one day come to the company’s VR headsets as well.
“Generally, pretty much everything you can do on Orion you can do on Quest,”…
