Bosworth: Meta's Orion prototype proves post-smartphone computing is achievable
Andrew Bosworth · What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech · Apr 24, 2025 · at 12:24
Andrew Bosworth is the CTO of Meta. Orion is Meta's full augmented reality (AR) glasses prototype. Bosworth explains how trying Orion convinced him that computing can move beyond smartphones.
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“That's why I said like the, Orion was the first thought time I thought Me. Like, the first, Orion, like, putting that in my head, I was like, okay, like, it could happen. Like, there does exist, like, a life for us as a species past the phone.”
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