Meta just unveiled Orion, their full AR glasses prototype that they’ve been working on for nearly a decade. When they started on this journey, their teams predicted that they had a 10% chance (at best) of success.

This was their project to see if their dream AR glasses—wide FOV display, less than 100 grams, wireless—were actually possible to build. Not only do they work, Meta will be using them internally as a time machine to help build the core experiences and interaction paradigms needed for the consumer AR glasses they plan to launch in the coming years.