What Meta Announced at Connect 2024, and the Future It Is Building Toward

Originally published in Chinese on September 27, 2024. Below are the products Meta announced at Connect 2024, followed by what they suggest about where Meta is heading. The main product announcements Meta Quest 3S: a new mixed reality headset Processor and display: Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor, Fast LCD display, 1832×1920 resolution per eye, 120Hz refresh rate. Features and storage: hand tracking, with 128GB and 256GB storage options. Price and shipping: $299.99 and $399.99 respectively, expected to ship October 15. Orion AR glasses: an early shape of the future computing center Hardware: magnesium frame, silicon carbide waveguide, Micro LED display, wireless connection, gesture control. System components: the glasses themselves, a neural wristband (the controller), and a wireless compute puck (the battery pack). Standalone operation: no phone or laptop needed, but the glasses must stay within 12 feet of the puck. Vision and tracking: 70-degree field of view, and 7 cameras for anchoring virtual objects, tracking, and AI understanding of where the user is looking. Built-in contextual AI: it can "sense and understand" the surrounding world, and anticipate and meet the user's needs. Llama 3.2: a step forward for on-device AI Core capability: visual multimodal ability. Model versions: the large models come in 90B and 11B, and the on-device models in 1B and 3B. On-device advantage: Mark Zuckerberg said the 1B and 3B versions will be the strongest on-device AI. Input, output and context: text input and output, with a maximum context length of 128K tokens. Training method: the 1