Project Aria: A New Tool for Egocentric Multi-Modal AI Research
This provides a new dataset and tool for researchers working on egocentric AI, but it is incremental as it focuses on hardware and software for data collection rather than novel algorithms.
The paper introduces the Aria device, a wearable tool for recording egocentric, multi-modal data to address challenges in machine perception for AR applications, enabling research in this area.
Egocentric, multi-modal data as available on future augmented reality (AR) devices provides unique challenges and opportunities for machine perception. These future devices will need to be all-day wearable in a socially acceptable form-factor to support always available, context-aware and personalized AI applications. Our team at Meta Reality Labs Research built the Aria device, an egocentric, multi-modal data recording and streaming device with the goal to foster and accelerate research in this area. In this paper, we describe the Aria device hardware including its sensor configuration and the corresponding software tools that enable recording and processing of such data.