“With holographic displays, the glasses can overlay 2D and 3D content over the real world, and use artificial intelligence to analyse its contents and ‘proactively’ offer wearers suggestions in the display, Meta said. Its shares rose more than 2 per cent following the announcement.

The prototype will only be available for use internally and for some developers to build on. To be ready for consumers, Zuckerberg conceded the glasses needed to be ‘smaller’, ‘more fashionable’, with a sharper display and more affordable, adding ‘we have line of sight to all those things’.

A Meta video displaying the Orion technology featured praise from several Silicon Valley stars, including Jensen Huang, Nvidia founder and chief executive, and Reddit chief executive Steve Huffman.”

From Financial Times.