Project Aria Glasses

Meta's research eyewear for collecting first-person data; it only records, it doesn't display anything to the wearer.

Project Aria is a research project from Meta Reality Labs, centered on a pair of sensor-laden glasses that look close to ordinary eyewear, used to collect multimodal first-person data. The first generation carries 1 RGB camera, 2 SLAM cameras (for localization and mapping), 2 eye-tracking cameras, plus an IMU, microphones, and more; the second generation increases the SLAM cameras to 4, adds a heart-rate (PPG) sensor and a contact microphone, runs 6–8 hours on a charge, and can perform localization, hand tracking, and eye tracking directly on the device. Meta provides it to academic and industry partners by application, and its website states more than 200 partners so far. In embodied AI, it's mainly used to cheaply collect first-person human manipulation video and hand trajectories for robot learning; datasets such as Nymeria and HOT3D were both collected with it.

ExampleGeorgia Tech's EgoMimic has people wear Aria glasses while performing tabletop manipulation, then trains a policy on the recorded first-person video and hand trajectories together with a small amount of robot data.

Also called

Aria Glasses, Aria Gen 2

Related

Egocentric Video · Human Video Data · EgoMimic · Nymeria · HOT3D · Wearable Data Collection

Sources

Project Aria Glasses（官网规格页） (Chinese)
Project Aria: A New Tool for Egocentric Multi-Modal AI Research (arXiv:2308.13561)
EgoMimic: Scaling Imitation Learning via Egocentric Video (arXiv:2410.24221)

As of

2026-09