## Aria Gen 2 applications are open. Our next generation hardware unlocks new possibilities.

[Aria Gen 2 Applications Are Now Open](https://meta.com/blog/aria-gen-2-updates/)

Today, we’re excited to announce that applications are now open for researchers to receive Aria Gen 2, targeting a broad rollout of Aria Gen 2 devices to qualified applicants in Q2 2026.

### [Bridging the Gap: Introducing Boxer for Open-World 2D-to-3D Lifting](/content/news/introducing-boxer/index.html)

We are excited to announce Boxer: a new, lightweight and modular model designed to lift open-world 2D bounding boxes into high-precision metric 3D oriented bounding boxes (3DBBs), enabling more detailed annotation of objects in 3D space.  
*April 22, 2026*

### [Sonata: Advancing Self-Supervised Learning for 3D Point Representations](/content/news/introducing-sonata/index.html)
*June 4, 2025*

### [Reading Recognition in the Wild: A dataset for understanding human behaviors during reading from egocentric sensor suite](/content/news/introducing-reading-recognition-in-the-wild/index.html)
*June 4, 2025*

### [Inside Aria Gen 2: Explore the Cutting-Edge Tech Behind the Device](https://meta.com/blog/aria-gen-2-research-glasses-under-the-hood-reality-labs/)

Today, we’re excited to share more about the technology inside Aria Gen 2. This includes an in-depth overview of the form factor, audio capabilities, battery life, upgraded cameras and sensors, on-device compute, and more.  
*June 4, 2025*

### [Introducing Aria Gen 2: Unlocking New Research in Machine Perception, Contextual AI, Robotics, and More](https://meta.com/blog/project-aria-gen-2-next-generation-egocentric-research-glasses-reality-labs-ai-robotics/)

Today, we're excited to announce the next step in the Project Aria journey: the introduction of Aria Gen 2 research glasses.  
*February 27, 2025*

### [Introducing Nymeria, a dataset for improving human motion prediction for AR and VR devices](https://ai.meta.com/blog/nymeria-dataset-reality-labs-research-egocentric-human-motion-understanding/)

The Nymeria dataset provides egocentric human motion in the wild at an unprecedented scale, capturing a broad spectrum of people engaging in everyday activities across varied locations.  
*December 20, 2024*

### [Project Aria Research Kit: Case Studies + a Call for Applications](https://meta.com/blog/project-aria-research-kit-case-studies/)

Today, we’re sharing some case studies of exciting work undertaken with Project Aria and inviting members of the research community to apply for the Aria Research Kit (ARK).  
*November 13, 2024*

### [Introducing the Digital Twin Catalog from Reality Labs Research](https://ai.meta.com/blog/digital-twin-catalog-3d-reconstruction-shopify-reality-labs-research/)

Reality Labs Research is releasing the Digital Twin Catalog (DTC), which we believe is the world’s largest and highest quality 3D object model dataset for 3D reconstruction research.  
*September 30, 2024*

### [Introducing the Aria Training and Evaluation toolkit (ATEK)](/content/news/aria-training-and-evaluation-toolkit-atek/index.html)

Today, we’re introducing ATEK, an e2e framework for training and evaluating deep learning models on Aria data, for both 3D egocentric-specific and general machine perception tasks.  
*September 26, 2024*