OpenAI has hired Mark Zuckerberg’s former head of augmented reality (AR) hardware, Desai Ugay, to lead its own AR glasses project codenamed ‘Orion’. The goal is to develop lightweight AR glasses that can overlay digital information onto the real world. Ugay’s team at Meta was responsible for developing the company’s first AR glasses prototype. At OpenAI, Ugay will lead a team focused on building the hardware and software for Orion. The move signals OpenAI’s ambitions to expand beyond its core AI research and software products into physical hardware devices. Orion is expected to leverage OpenAI’s AI models, like GPT-4, to provide users with real-time information and assistance through the AR glasses. The project aims to create a new computing platform that seamlessly blends the digital and physical worlds.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-hires-meta-hardware-lead-ar-glasses-orion-2024-11