Facebook owner Meta Platforms showed off its first working prototype of augmented-reality glasses, called Orion, during its annual Connect conference at its California headquarters on Wednesday, along with updates to its existing virtual-reality and artificial-intelligence products.

Meta announced a lower cost version of its Quest 3 virtual reality headset and demoed its prototype Orion augmented reality glasses alongside a significant expansion of its artificial intelligence efforts on Wednesday at the company's annual Meta Connect event in Menlo Park,

Mark Zuckerberg himself announced the Quest 3S at the Meta Connect event. It costs $299.99, which is a steep discount on the newly reduced-price $499.99 Meta Quest 3 or $999.99 Meta Quest Pro. Meta said the headset could do pretty much anything most folks want to use a headset for,