Peter Kafka wears Meta's Orion glasses
I tried Meta's Orion computer glasses, and they are very cool.
  • Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled Orion, Meta's new augmented-reality glasses.
  • Lots of people think these kinds of glasses could be the future of computing — as powerful as an iPhone, but something you can wear on your head.
  • But Meta says these are too expensive for the mass market. It will take years to make them smaller and cheaper.

Here is what you need to know about Orion, the new computer-on-your-face nerd glasses Mark Zuckerberg showed off today: