Welcome back for another episode of Boz To The Future, a podcast from Reality Labs. In today’s episode, our host, Meta CTO and Head of Reality Labs Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, is joined by Meta’s VP of Wearables Alex Himel.
Himel’s team works on some of the industry’s hardest technical problems, all in the service of helping to build the next computing platform. Like Bosworth, he’s a tenured leader at Meta, having filled numerous leadership roles across the business in his 15+ years at the company.
Bosworth and Himel cover a range of topics, including wearables, augmented reality, and how AI is accelerating and improving the kinds of experiences embedded in Очила Ray-Ban Meta and future products.
They go deep on Orion and the positive reception it’s received since Mark Zuckerberg announced it at Свържете. Just as Steve Jobs recognized the Alto as a turning point in computing, Bosworth asserted that, while we may disagree about the details, it’s hard to argue against this as the future. Himel and Bosworth go on to talk about the tremendous value of prototyping and building, saying how much more they’ve learned about Orion and its input paradigms in the three weeks of using it compared to the years spent building it.
They also talked about the crucial role of AI in wearables, and how it’s becoming increasingly useful in everyday life—especially now that you’re able to ask Meta AI about things you’re seeing and use it to set visual reminders.
Himel also talks about his deep experience in a different kind of stack: sandwiches. With seven years under his belt working in the famous Lange’s Little Store in Chappaqua, NY, where he grew up, Himel and Bosworth get into what makes a great sandwich, where tomatoes really go, and which bread is superior.
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