ABOUT PROJECT ARIA

Project Aria accelerates AR and AI research

Our team uses Aria glasses and tools in our own research, enabling us to produce high quality open datasets, tools and research outcomes that progress the state of computer vision, scene understanding and contextual AI.

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OUR APPROACH

Project Aria began as a moonshoot effort to build the worlds' first-ever research glasses, designed to accelerate research for AR and AI.

Project Aria is a research program from Meta Reality Labs Research that helps researchers understand the technical and non-technical challenges for building AR and AI devices.

Aria glasses fulfill a need in the research community for a wearable, always-on form factor capable of capturing a users context with an advanced sensor suite. Before Project Aria, there was a significant and costly gap to build, or modify existing sensor stacks to meet that need. Breakthroughs and innovations that pre-empt products like Meta’s Orion were made possible by our first generation glasses released in 2020.

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OUR RESEARCH

Unlocking innovation, impacting research

Our team uses Aria glasses and tools in our own research, enabling us to produce high-quality open datasets, tools, and research outcomes that progress the state of computer vision, scene understanding, and contextual AI.

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FEATURED PROJECT

Sonata

An approach to self-supervised learning (SSL) for point clouds that focuses on 3D pointcloud data from sources such as RGB-D sensors, Structure-from-Motion point clouds like from Project Aria, and LIDAR scanners.

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FEATURED PROJECT

Photorealistic Reconstruction

Our novel scene reconstruction method aims to solve the limitations of reconstructing high-quality scenes from wearable egocentric devices. We demonstrate a solution using visual-inertial bundle adjustment (VIBA) and incorporating a physical image formation model based on Gaussian Splatting.

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Learn more about
Aria Glasses

For more information about our Aria Gen 1 and Gen 2 glasses check out our research paper and technical blog.

ARIA GEN 1 RESEARCH PAPER
ARIA GEN 2 TECHNICAL BLOG
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Access the Aria Research Kit

For the broader research community, Meta has a rolling application for the Aria Research Kit. The kit includes Aria Gen 2 glasses, tools, and services for independent research efforts that are shaping the future of contextual AI and robotics.

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