Aria Gen 2, from Meta | Project Aria
Bringing the Human Perspective to AI.
What is Project Aria?
A research program from Meta dedicated to building the future, responsibly.
Aria glasses are used by researchers internally at Meta, and by over 200 academic and corporate partners to accelerate research across a variety of use cases.
Aria Gen 2 offers key innovations to the computer vision camera system, sensor integrations, and the added capacity for on-device compute.
Aria Gen 2 applications are open; the next generation hardware unlocks new possibilities.
Hardware — Aria Gen 2
Advanced sensors and on-device machine perception make Aria Gen 2 a powerful tool to revolutionize the future of Contextual AI and Robotics.
Device comparison
Aria Gen 2 glasses introduces human-in-the-loop features with speakers, PPG sensors, contact microphone, on-device compute, always-on sensing, and more.
Aria Gen 2 glasses (2025):
- Machine Perception
- On-device Location, Hand and Eye Tracking, Automatic Speech Recognition
Partners / Datasets
- HOI Dataset: Synchronized, high-quality egocentric and manipulation-centric viewpoints during human interactions with articulated objects from Aria Gen 2.
- Open source offerings: public datasets, models and tools to accelerate computer vision, scene understanding, and contextual AI.
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 shaping the future of contextual AI and robotics.
Resources
- Docs (Gen 1): https://facebookresearch.github.io/projectaria_tools/docs/intro
- Docs (Gen 2): https://facebookresearch.github.io/projectaria_tools/gen2/
- GitHub: https://github.com/facebookresearch/projectaria_tools
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13561
- News / releases: https://www.projectaria.com/releases/
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