Apple vs. Meta: How We’re Going to Get Dream Smart Glasses | WSJ

The Wall Street Journal December 18, 2024
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Meta’s current Ray-Bans and its Orion prototype offer a glimpse of the sleek, high-tech glasses we’ve dreamed of, while Apple’s Vision Pro delivers a lot more function but too much bulk. Tech companies are making progress on augmented-reality glasses that bring digital objects into our real world, but do we even want that future? WSJ’s Joanna Stern tests these AR glasses and charts the path to the perfect wearable. Chapters: 0:00 Meta’s new AR glasses 0:54 The face computing extremes 1:51 Where we are going: Meta Orion 4:08 The future Tech Things With Joanna Stern Everything is now a tech thing. In creative and humorous videos, WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern explains and reviews the products, services and trends that are changing our world. #Apple #Meta #WSJ

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