Rahul Prasad

Product Lead and Senior Director for Meta Orion AR Glasses. Former OS engineer. All opinions are my own.

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

I keep seeing "Fable 5 launched" and thinking that the story of Albion will finally continue again. Only to be disappointed about the game and excited about the model.

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

@exQUIZitely *Loved* Descent 1&2. Iirc had true 6dof rendering before Quake.

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@alexeheath @hamburger Congrats!!

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@rajanpatel Nice! Was wishing for this during my Japan trip earlier this year.

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

@dflieb This is what Apple promised at last year's wwdc and then failed to deliver. Pretty cool if/when Google ships this. Will be super useful.

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

@vishakh @albertwenger meh. I think Anil Seth's work is worth checking out. Being New: A New Science of Consciousness

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

@EthanEvansVP This is an insightful thread. The Principle-Agent problem really rears its head in large corporations once the incentives of leaders/managers become misaligned with the incentives of the corporation. Perhaps that's one of the root causes of "bad leaders"

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

Gets more surreal every year

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

It's 2025. Time to talk about time.

We've officially put a bow on the first quarter of the 21st century and are in day one of quarter #2.

Times we grew up envisioning as the far future aren't so far away anymore. Even if lifespans stayed as they are now, many of today's college students will live to see the 22nd century. Many of today's babies will still be in the peak of their careers in the year 2100. And 2040, 2060, and 2100 are now closer to us than 2010, 1990, and 1950.

Likewise, much of what still feels like recent history is beginning to look a lot like ancient history. NSYNC's "Tearing Up My Heart" came out closer to the moon landing than to today. E.T. hit theaters closer to the 1930s than to today. And Billy Joel's "She's Got a Way" was released nearer to World War I than the present moment.

If Back to the Future were released today, Marty would be heading back to the ridiculously retro year 1995. His teenage parents would be doing hilariously old things like talking on big cell phones and hanging out in AOL chat rooms.

And of course, no existential time crisis would be complete without The Wonder Years. The show aired from 1988-1993 and took place in the years 1968-1973. If the show debuted today, it would be set in 2005-2010 and cover nostalgic old things like Obama's election, Instagram like counts, and Taylor Swift concerts.

Happy New Year, and thanks for keeping me company during this rapid little life we're all living. 🫶

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

@chandhok @dieworkwear Indeed!

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@joshtwoodward @GoogleDeepMind @googlechrome @labsdotgoogle Congratulations @joshtwoodward ! Very impressive!

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

@Noahpinion This was def not the consensus. Several experts in the field didn't believe scaling would get to AGI.

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

@Carnage4Life Pretty easy to go from the radical candor quadrant to the obnoxious aggression quadrant. And it's a slippery slope from there.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

I cannot stress enough how important it is you watch this gorilla bathe-dancing to maniac.

[Alex Heath @alexeheath]

This is Orion, Meta's first AR glasses prototype. I got to demo them in-depth with Mark Zuckerberg and talked to other Meta execs about the long road to what they think comes after the smartphone: https://t.co/Ntb6GCPYda

[Ben Thompson @benthompson]

They’re real and they’re spectacular.

[Stratechery @stratechery]

9-26-2024

An Interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth About Orion and Reality Labs

https://t.co/kezfRE55Dw

[Boz @boztank]

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

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

TL;DR: We built it, just like we said we would =)

[Roberto Nickson @rpnickson]

BREAKING: Meta just debuted ORION - the most advanced AR glasses prototype ever built.

I was tapped by Meta to create the video for Orion which premiered LIVE at Connect.

Which means I got to spend a lot of time with the device – considered as one of the “North Star” products of the tech industry – which many believe represents the next great computing platform.

Let’s break down some of the specs:

‣ 72 degree field-of-view, by far the largest of any AR glasses display.
‣ Optical alignment at the accuracy of 1/10 the width of a human hair.
‣ Powerful compute with low power consumption and heat dissipation
‣ Electromyography (EMG) wristband that lets you swipe, click and scroll while keeping your arm comfortably at your side
‣ Wireless compute puck

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

@hardimanjames That's because you like your steak well done.

[Rahul Prasad @Rahul42182]

@hardimanjames You could have the best of intentions but the burrito will have it's own agenda.