With so much going on in AI, investors seem to be looking past its Metaverse segment. That may seem odd, as the company once known as Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021. With the company's Reality Labs segment continuing to lose billions of dollars every quarter, investors may have written off the effort.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal fortune has climbed to $201 billion. As he envisions AR glasses Orion to be the future of computing, will they benefit the public?

Meta initially gave the Orion prototype only a 10% chance of success, so it has exceeded expectations. But will it exceed consumer expectations?

Augmented reality is changing very fast, with giants like Apple and Meta blazing the trail. Meanwhile, Apple Vision Pro and Meta Orion AR glasses are being tout

Meta Orion is not Magic Leap. First of all, in addition to showing the AR glasses on stage (roughly 50 feet away from where I sat), Meta gave hands-on demos to a handful of celebrities, industry figures (including Gary Vee and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang), and some media outlets.

Perhaps the most interesting feature of the Orion glasses are the lenses, which are not made from glass or plastic. Instead, Meta is using a silicon carbide where tiny projections are beamed onto the lenses. This material is supposed to be more durable, lighter and features an ultrahigh index for refraction of the on-board projectors.

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg called Orion "the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen". He said they offer a "glimpse of the future" in which smart glasses will replace smartphones as the main mode of communication.